[DeathMan]

Does anyone know? I can't find it in the man pages for ftpd. I couldn't find it with google either. That's about all I know to do.

[howardm4]

in almost all cases, the {x}inetd
daemon handles the start/stop of
ftpd as required when a connection
comes in requesting the FTP port.

[gatorparrots]

Restart *inetd to restart the ftp server:
10.1
sudo kill -1 `cat /var/run/inetd.pid`

10.2
sudo kill -1 `cat /var/run/xinetd.pid`

[BigMac2]

the easiest way is to use the killall command:
sudo killall -HUP xinetd

[gatorparrots]

sudo killall -1 xinetd
(the -1 flag is the numerical equivalent of the -HUP flag)