SLES8 still comes with inetd. I really wish they'd switch.
All inetd/xinetd does is provide a "front-end" for network apps. It has a few
"built-in" services, as documented in the man page:
These services are ``echo'', ``discard'', ``chargen''
(character generator), ``daytime'' (human readable time), and ``time''
(machine readable time, in the form of the number of seconds since mid�
night, January 1, 1900)
ftp, telnet, etc. are all add-ons. in.ftpd is supplied by wuftpd on SLES7, but that
package isn't provided with SLES8. proftpd (also in 7, but not in 8) uses a different
program, in.proftpd. SLES8
comes with vsftpd, which is a good package, but has a lot of options and a bit of a
learning curve.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Booher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 12:03 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] SLES 8.1 FTP problems
>
>
> I thought everything on SLES8 was controlled by the
> SUPER-DAEMON XINETD...here's what I show for ftp:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]$ cd xinetd.d
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] xinetd.d]$ ls
> chargen daytime-udp finger rexec sgi_fam time
> chargen-udp echo linuxconf-web rlogin talk time-udp
> daytime echo-udp ntalk rsh telnet wu-ftpd
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] xinetd.d]$ cat 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 -a
> log_on_success += DURATION USERID
> log_on_failure += USERID
> nice = 10
> disable = no
> }
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] xinetd.d]$
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Ellsperman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 10:13 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: SLES 8.1 FTP problems
>
>
> I'm having a problem with ftp under SLES 8.1. I go into inetd and
> activated the ftp service but I'm still not able to ftp to
> this server.
> When I look at the service details in inetd it looks like this
> Active! ftp stream tcp nowait root
> /usr/sbin/tcpd in.ftpd
> If I look in /usr/sbin there is no file called in.ftpd. This
> file exists
> on our SLES 7.2 systems where ftp is working fine.
> When I try to ftp to this server I get the following error message
> 421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection.
>
> Any help would be appreciated!
>
> Kevin Ellsperman
> Payless ShoeSource, Inc.
> 785-559-6326
>
