From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 1 11:44:28 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA23104 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 1 Jul 1996 11:44:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (palmer.demon.co.uk [158.152.50.150]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA23092 for ; Mon, 1 Jul 1996 11:44:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palmer.demon.co.uk (sendmail/PALMER-2) with ESMTP id SAA04707; Mon, 1 Jul 1996 18:50:20 +0100 (BST) To: John Clark cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: wu_ftpd port "Service not available" In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 01 Jul 1996 10:48:32 CDT." <2.2.32.19960701110456.009290e0@netview.net> Date: Mon, 01 Jul 1996 18:50:19 +0100 Message-ID: <4704.836243419@palmer.demon.co.uk> Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk John Clark wrote in message ID <2.2.32.19960701110456.009290e0@netview.net>: > Hello, > > I have been trying to use the Washington University FTP daemon. It will not > allow me to login: > It would seem that it should be a simple matter to fix this, but for the > life of me, I don't know how. In the past, I have used wu_ftpd without a > hitch. I think it is the crazy shadow-passwords database system that > FreeBSD uses that is confusing the server??? Are you using the port? The port works fine... > Also, please note the number in parentheses on my server (3): > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 220 net1.netview.net FTP server (Version wu-2.4(3) Mon Jul 1 10:07:50 EST > 1996) ready. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > The cdrom.com server is a bit different: > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 220 wcarchive.cdrom.com FTP server (Version wu-2.4(17) Sat Jun 22 21:37:48 > PDT 1996) ready. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > What does that mean? A revision number? It's the number of times the program has been compiled. Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info