RE: [Sheflug] ftp problem

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] ecosse.net>]

>===== Original Message From "Sheflug" <sheflug [at] vuw.ac.nz> =====
>Thanks Stephen and Barrie,
>
>I'm sure you're right but I give up - I can't find reference to ftpd
>anywhere. I looked in linuxconf under 'basic services' and found that ftp
>wasn't listed in the 'server' section and so added it ( I think correctly -
>path to /usr/bin/ftp with an argument of 'ftp') - restarted the machine, but
>still didn't see any mention of ftpd starting

 You did what!!! Restarted the machine? This isn't Windows you know! :-)

 Edit /etc/inetd.conf and uncomment the line that relates to ftpd - not too 
far down the page.

 Then type (as root):

killall -HUP inetd

 to restart the inet 'superserver' - the program that controls a lot of the 
network services like telnet, ftp, finger etc.

 That should start your ftp server if it isn't already running.

 Also, have you checked /etc/hosts.allow to make sure that you are allowing 
connections from the machine you're trying to ftp in from?

 You should have line like

ftpd: 192.168.0.1 # or whatever IP your machine is
or
ALL: 192.168.0.1

 on the ftp server machine

 Baz.

Barrie J. Bremner

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