[Techtalk] ftpd not running

[Pierre Fortin]

On Wed, 1 May 2002 19:06:28 -0700 (PDT) Conni
<ccovingt at one-eyed-alien.net> wrote:

> I can't get the ftpd running on my machines (either of them.)  I have
> wu-ftpd-2.6.1-18 on the one I'm sitting at, and 1-20 on the one
> upstairs. Neither is currently accepting connections.  They're both
> xinetd-controlled.  I know xinetd is working on the other machine,
> because it serves ident, which works.  I've restarted xinetd; didn't
> help.  I just installed RH7.2 on my new VAIO.  nmap -sT shows that ftp
> isn't open. ftp'ing to localhost gets a refused connection.  I have no
> idea what else to do.  Here's the entry for wu-ftpd.  I haven't changed
> it any, but suddenly it stopped working.
> 
> [conni at elbereth conni]$ more /etc/xinetd.d/wu-ftpd
> # default: on
> # description: The wu-ftpd FTP server serves FTP connections. It uses \
> #       normal, unencrypted usernames and passwords for authentication.
> service ftp
> {
>         socket_type             = stream
>         wait                    = no
>         user                    = root
>         server                  = /usr/sbin/in.ftpd
>         server_args             = -l
>         log_on_success          += DURATION USERID
>         log_on_failure          += USERID
>         nice                    = 10
>         disable                 = yes
> }       ^^^^^^^                   ^^^

You might want to *enable* it...  :^)

Pierre