Service restart command on VSFTP install pages

[Sarel Smit]

On the page that documents how to install vsftp(https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/ftp-server.html) it constantly uses:"sudo restart vsftpd" - should it not be:"sudo service restart vsftpd" ?

[Doug Smythies (dsmythies)]

Well, actually it should be (I think):

sudo systemctl restart vsftpd

But the original error that you point out is why we missed it when we changed the entire serverguide to the systemctl commands. Thanks.

@Sarel; I don't have vsftpd on my test server, could you verify the above command on your computer?

[Andreas Hasenack (ahasenack)]

systemctl restart works with vsftpd in xenial:

ubuntu@xenial-vsftpd:~$ pidof vsftpd
1118

ubuntu@xenial-vsftpd:~$ sudo systemctl restart vsftpd

ubuntu@xenial-vsftpd:~$ pidof vsftpd
1177

ubuntu@xenial-vsftpd:~$ apt-cache policy vsftpd
vsftpd:
  Installed: 3.0.3-3ubuntu2
  Candidate: 3.0.3-3ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 3.0.3-3ubuntu2 500
        500 http://br.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status