Re: can't connect to ftp server

2004-02-18 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 04:34:04PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: Something related which I'd like to understand Matthew. I don't know what the base install ftpd is as # /usr/libexec/ftpd -V ftpd: illegal option -- V ftpd: unknown flag -V ignored # /usr/libexec/ftpd -v # However I

Re: can't connect to ftp server

2004-02-17 Thread Wayne Pascoe
On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 11:19:10AM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: I'm running 4.8 on a lan with sshd, httpd and no known problems except that I can't connect to ftp from another box. The message I get on my ftp client (filezilla) is 'unable to connect'. Inetd is running and /etc/inetd.conf

Re: can't connect to ftp server

2004-02-17 Thread Marty Landman
At 11:24 AM 2/17/2004, Wayne Pascoe wrote: On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 11:19:10AM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: I can't connect to ftp from another box. Couple of things to check... 1. Does /usr/libexec/ftpd exist yes 2. Is there anything listening on port 21 (netstat -an | grep LISTEN | grep

Re: can't connect to ftp server

2004-02-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 12:04:51PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: Well, I know more than before and I can get sftp access to my fbsd box so yes. Now I gather the problem is that the machine isn't listening on port 21; is that supposed to be controlled by inetd? What do I do now? Kinda obvious,

Re: can't connect to ftp server

2004-02-17 Thread Marty Landman
At 01:25 PM 2/17/2004, Matthew Seaman wrote: Kinda obvious, but is inetd(8) running at all? # ps -ax | fgrep inetd 20482 ?? Is 0:00.01 inetd start If it is running, did you restart it after editing the configuration file? yes To make inetd(8) start automatically on reboots add this to

Re: can't connect to ftp server

2004-02-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 02:48:14PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: At 01:25 PM 2/17/2004, Matthew Seaman wrote: Kinda obvious, but is inetd(8) running at all? # ps -ax | fgrep inetd 20482 ?? Is 0:00.01 inetd start Right -- this is where the problem is. inetd(8) doesn't understand

Re: can't connect to ftp server

2004-02-17 Thread matthew
On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Marty Landman wrote: At 01:25 PM 2/17/2004, Matthew Seaman wrote: Kinda obvious, but is inetd(8) running at all? # ps -ax | fgrep inetd 20482 ?? Is 0:00.01 inetd start If it is running, did you restart it after editing the configuration file? yes To make

Re: can't connect to ftp server

2004-02-17 Thread Marty Landman
At 03:27 PM 2/17/2004, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 02:48:14PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: # ps -ax | fgrep inetd 20482 ?? Is 0:00.01 inetd start Right -- this is where the problem is. inetd(8) doesn't understand 'start' as a command line argument. It's not like the