Unlike many daemons, Pure-FTPd doesn't read any configuration file (but for LDAP and SQL). Instead, it uses command-line options. For instance, the '-H' flag is designed to speed up highly loaded servers, by avoiding DNS lookups. To enable this, just add it to the server name: /usr/local/sbin/pure-ftpd -H Alternative long options are also supported. Here's an equivalent of the previous command: /usr/local/sbin/pure-ftpd --dontresolve But you can use traditional configuration files over command-line options. Adding a parser for configuration files in the server is a bad idea. It slows down everything and needs resources for nothing. If you want to use a configuration file with Pure-FTPd, you can, through a wrapper. That wrapper will parse a file and convert it to command-line options. Then, the server will be started with these options. Please have a look at the 'configuration-files' directory. Copy the sample configuration file called 'pure-ftpd.conf' to a suitable location, say /etc: cd configuration-files cp pure-ftpd.conf /etc Edit /etc/pure-ftpd.conf according to your needs. Then, to start the server, just run the following command: chmod 755 pure-config.pl ./pure-config.pl /etc/pure-ftpd.conf This is a simple Perl script that will run /usr/local/sbin/pure-ftpd with the right options, according to the configuration file. And because there's a Python vs. Perl friendly war since ages, we also provide a Python version of this program ('pure-config.py'). Should any of these config tools contain a wrong path or fail otherwise, please file a bug report.
