How to find out what FTP service is being used

[MikeSnead]

Greetings,

I'm trying to find out what FTP service a remote server of ours is running. I believe the OS is Fedora Core 2 so I was hoping it was running vsftpd, but running the command 'service vsftpd status' returns that the service is unrecognized. Is it possible to pull up a list of services currently running? or some other way to figure out what FTP server this thing is running so that I can add a new user :p

[mtmosier]

I don't use fedora, so I can't give you a direct way to find out. Here's what I'd do though.

First run "netstat -tlnp" as root, and look for the process which is listening on port 21. If the name of the process doesn't make it obvious then you can either use "lsof -p ####" or grep through the output of ps using the process id from netstat, to figure out the daemon used.

[MikeSnead]

Looking through the netstat output did the trick! Thanks mtmosier!