Let restart FTP Service over the panel!
There is no way to restart the ftp service inside of plesk and after a long resarch, I can't find a actual way how to do this...
Sebastian,
If we are talking about Linux, ProFTPd is running through xinetd.d there. It means that there is no standalone process running all time but xinetd.d launch ProFTPd each time when someone is connecting to port 21 and then this process ends when connection has been closed.
Please refer to http://docs.plesk.com/en-US/12.5/advanced-administration-guide-linux/system-maintenance/managing-services-from-the-command-line-and-viewing-service-logs.68885/ to know more about ProFTPd related files in OS.
Plesk for Windows already has the feature to restart Microsoft FTP service in Tools&Settings → Services Management → FTP Server
We have to close this item as Irrelevant, because it does not contain any actual feature request.
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