ftpcount(1)

💖 ftpcount(1) — the ftpcount manual page, bestie edition 💖

from the General Commands Manual ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

ftpcount — shows you the current number of connections for each proftpd server configuration 👀

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

ftpcount

that's it. that's the whole synopsis. no args required, she just works 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so ftpcount shows you the current number of connections per server, and also per virtualhost/anonymous configuration, as defined in the proftpd.conf file. it's giving census but for your FTP sessions 🫶

and like, important detail: connections spawned by inetd are counted separately from those created by a master proftpd standalone server. so don't come for me when the numbers look split — that's literally by design, no cap 😭

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -h, --help — displays a short usage description, including all available options. the "help me bestie" flag 🙈
• -f, --file scoreboard-file — specify the full path to proftpd's run-time scoreboard file (which gets configured via the ScoreboardFile directive in proftpd.conf). so here's the tea: if proftpd's default directory has been changed via this directive, then ftpcount must either be recompiled or you have to use this option, in order for ftpcount to find proftpd's scoreboard. those are the only two paths, fr fr 🔥
• -S, --server server-name — specify the ServerName for a specific virtual host. if you use it, ftpcount will only show the session count for the given virtual host. one vhost, one vibe check 👑

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🍓 FILES 🍓

• /usr/bin/ftpcount
• /run/proftpd/proftpd.scoreboard

the receipts 📋

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

ProFTPD is written and maintained by a number of people — full credits can be found on http://www.proftpd.org/credits.html

so many icons, honestly. a whole group chat of maintainers 💜

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• inetd(8), ftp(1), proftpd(8), ftpwho(1), ftptop(1), ftpshut(8)

Full documentation on ProFTPD, including configuration and FAQs, is available at http://www.proftpd.org/

For help/support, try the ProFTPD mailing lists, detailed on http://www.proftpd.org/lists.html

Report bugs at http://bugs.proftpd.org/

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reminder bestie: nothing here is optional reading. every flag, every path, every link — all of it matters 🫶

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and that's the whole page!! 💖 this was the March 2003 edition of the ftpcount(1) manual page — yes, she's vintage, and yes, she still slays ✨ mwah, go count some connections 🎀