Chapter 8 Working With File Services 77

Changing NFS Service Settings

Use the following parameters with the serveradmin command to change settings for
the NFS service.
FTP Service

Starting FTP Service

To start FTP service:
$ sudo serveradmin start ftp

Stopping FTP Service

To stop FTP service:
$ sudo serveradmin stop ftp

Checking FTP Service Status

To see if FTP service is running:
$ sudo serveradmin status ftp
To see complete FTP status:
$ sudo serveradmin fullstatus ftp

Viewing FTP Settings

To list all FTP service settings:
$ sudo serveradmin settings ftp
To list a particular setting:
$ sudo serveradmin settings ftp:setting
To list a group of settings:
You can list a group of settings that have part of their names in common by typing
only as much of the name as you want, stopping at a colon (:), and typing an asterisk
(*) as a wildcard for the remaining parts of the name. For example,
$ sudo serveradmin settings ftp:logCommands:*
Parameter (nfs:) Description
nbDaemons Default = 6
To reduce the number of daemons, you must restart the server
after changing this value.
useTCP Default = yes
You must restart the server after changing this value.
useUDP Default = yes
You must restart the server after changing this value.
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