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From: Luke Yelavich <themuso@themuso.com>
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On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 02:41:18PM EST, Glenn at home wrote:
> Hello group,
> I could use some suggestions on stopping VSFTPD.
> I have tried sbin/service vsftpd stop
> and that does not work.
> I am using Debian.
> There seems to be no service command in Debian.

As root, you simply run the scripts in /etc/init.d directly, so it would 
be:

# /etc/init.d/vsftpd stop

Hope this helps.

Luke
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