How do I enable FTP on VDS with Debian?

[Ozy]

OK I've searched the forums and google for how to enable FTP on my VDS running Debian. I searched the forums here and found nothing with 'FTP' in the messgae. What I found on Google was informative, but still not what I need.

I have edited the inetd.conf and added the line:
ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.ftpd -l -a

Then I added the file in.ftpd to /usr/sbin and restarted inetd, even went as for as rebooting the server. I still cannot get the ftp service started and make a successful ftp connection to the server.

Anyone else run into this? Am I missing something? Probably something simple? :)

Thanks

[computerguy]

Hello,

Make sure you have FTPd installed. I run Debian on my personal server at home and it isn't installed by default. If it is installed just type ps -A within SSH, this will show you everything that is running. Make sure FTPd is listed. If it's not installed a simple apt-get install ftpd should do the trick.

[Ozy]

I did that at one point, and it installed, and then i tried installing wu-ftpd and that didn't work either. I just tried apt-get install ftpd again. It removed the wu-ftpd and reinstalled the ftpd. Then when I listed the processes it wasen't running. So then I rebooted the server again and it still isn't running. Here's the list of processes I currently have running.

1 ? 00:00:00 init
19009 ? 00:00:00 syslogd
19488 ? 00:00:00 named
19589 ? 00:00:00 nscd
19592 ? 00:00:00 nscd
19593 ? 00:00:00 nscd
19594 ? 00:00:00 nscd
19595 ? 00:00:00 nscd
19596 ? 00:00:00 nscd
19597 ? 00:00:00 nscd
19598 ? 00:00:00 popa3d
20000 ? 00:00:00 smbd
22177 ? 00:00:00 sendmail
23510 ? 00:00:00 sshd
23523 ? 00:00:00 cron
23968 ? 00:00:00 apache
24512 ? 00:00:00 apache
24513 ? 00:00:00 apache
24514 ? 00:00:00 apache
24515 ? 00:00:00 apache
24516 ? 00:00:00 apache
24520 ? 00:00:00 miniserv.pl
27652 ? 00:00:00 sshd
27680 pts/0 00:00:00 bash
22880 pts/0 00:00:00 ps

Anyone se anything missing?