Hi - sorry for the late reply.
I do see login prompts and password prompts, yes. But it doesn't work. Here's the log:

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Looking up localhost
Trying localhost:21
Connected to localhost:21
220 (vsFTPd 1.2.1)
USER mbrown
331 Please specify the password.
PASS xxxx
500 OOPS: capset
Disconnecting from site localhost

What the heck?


On 4/19/06, Gustin Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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Is it giving a user/password error?  Do you see the login prompts (ie.
is it asking for a username).

Check the log directory, usually /var/log, when something is going wrong
most programs will tell you, you just have to look in the logs.  Even
though these are text files, they are actually more useful than the
windows event viewer.

If you do not see a log file that looks like it belongs to your ftp
profrom (eg. vsftpd.log), check in the daemon.log if there is one.
Failing that try this:
grep -r -i ftpd /var/log/*

If you get a ton of things scrolling on your screen, you can redirect
the output to another text file, like this:
grep -r -i ftpd /var/log/* > /path/to/logsearch.txt

Of course the path and filename are arbitrary, you can call it whatever
you like, and put it wherever you like (/tmp is often a popular choice)

Cheers,


Mitchell Brown wrote:
> Thanks  -- will try that.
> PS: It is the localhost I'm trying to do this from :-/
>
> On 4/19/06, Shawn < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
>> On Wednesday 19 April 2006 09:01, Mitchell Brown wrote:
>>> Thanks that kinda cleared some things up. I had no idea you could
>> integrate
>>> it with the local users. Hmm
>>> Not only will root not go for the login, nor will my local user.
>> "brown2"
>>> and its corresponding password fetch me the same error.
>>> It's quite annoying.
>> read up on the manuals for the server package you are using. Quite often
>> these
>> types of tools (apache, ftp, email, etc.) install with a default to only
>> listen to the localhost - for security reasons.  If you want to allow the
>> world to see the service, then you sometimes have to explicitly tell it
>> so.
>>
>> Shawn
>>
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