(Resent as I didn't get a copy) Giorgos and Derek,
Thank you for your replies. I don't know what happened, but all of a sudden ftp started working again. It could have been the Win XP machine I was using to access ftp on my server, I don't know. It was working fine, using WS_FTP Pro, to my other servers over the internet, but it wouldn't work here on its own LAN. I looked at xferlog, and saw that connection lines were entered, but the FTP LOGIN line wasn't there. Now that it is working, both lines show up in xferlog, as before. Giorgos, thanks for the example commands; All agree with your example returns except 'netstat -na | fgrep LISTEN | grep [:.]21', which returns 'grep: No match'. Am I missing something here? Thanks for the troubleshooting steps, I will review those commands and see what they do for me. Giorgios, you say "Stability is nice, isn't it? :)". Yes. But the problem is that it works so well for so long that I forget all I ever knew, and now it is obvious that I should update the system. I guess it's time to dust off the FreeBSD hat. Darek, It stopped working before I rebooted, and I have done literally nothing to this machine, except use Apache and ftp, for nearly a year. What is frustrating is that the problem went away! What now concerns me is that I did not receive a copy of my own post on this problem from the mailing list server, and I didn't get Giorgos' cc sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I used to get my posts back, but that was before I changed to this gmail account. If I don't receive this post, I'll go after that as a different problem. My ftp problem is "gone", but now a mailing list problem? Thanks again for the assistance. Jay O'Brien Rio Linda, California, USA -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: FTP stopped working Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 10:06:46 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Jay O'Brien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On 2006-01-08 23:44, Jay O'Brien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm embarassed to say that FreeBSD was working so good for me > that I forgot how to make it work. It was up for over 300 days > when I rebooted today. Oops :) > All of a sudden I cannot access the computer via ftp. I have > been able to do so using WS_FTP Pro on my Windows CP Pro > computer, but now it doesn't even seem to accept the connect. > The connect is via a local LAN, using fixed IPs. > > Guidance in a troubleshooting mode would really be appreciated. First check that you truly have the ftpd binary: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/root# ls -l /usr/libexec/ftpd -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 96360 Jan 8 13:00 /usr/libexec/ftpd Then see if ftpd is supposed to start as 'standalone' or as a service controlled by inetd: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/root# grep ftp /etc/rc.conf [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/root# grep inetd /etc/rc.conf inetd_enable="YES" [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/root# pgrep inet 651 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/root# grep '^[[:space:]]*ftp' /etc/inetd.conf ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/libexec/ftpd ftpd -l If inetd is running, pgrep should report its PID as above. Seeing no PID means that inetd failed to start. Your system logs at /var/log/messages will almost certainly have clues about the reason of the failure. Then, start checking if something *is* listening at port 21: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/root# netstat -na | fgrep LISTEN | grep [:.]21 tcp4 0 0 *.21 *.* LISTEN [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/root# sockstat -4 -l -p 21 USER COMMAND PID FD PROTO LOCAL ADDRESS FOREIGN ADDRESS root inetd 651 5 tcp4 *:21 *:* [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/root# If you don't have any indication how ftpd was started it's possible that you manually fired up ftpd and then promptly forgot about it, until you had to reboot. Stability is nice, isn't it? :) -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: FTP stopped working Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2006 10:29:58 -0600 From: Derek Ragona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Jay O'Brien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Jay, By default ftp logs in the system log so tail that log file as you try to ftp. That should point you to the problem. As it was working until you rebooted, what changed before the reboot? Did you add tcp wrappers or other security measures? -Derek _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"