From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 9 17:12:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wilsonandhorton.co.nz (fw2.wilsonandhorton.co.nz [203.99.66.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDF5437B5C3 for ; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 17:12:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@itouch.co.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by wilsonandhorton.co.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA70012; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 12:11:55 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 12:11:55 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: dbjames@bga.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how can i tell if ftp is working? Message-ID: <20000710121155.A69412@jonc.ntdns.wilsonandhorton.co.n> References: <3968CB66.31711.1809431@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <3968CB66.31711.1809431@localhost>; from dbjames@bga.com on Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 06:58:46PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 06:58:46PM -0500, dbjames@bga.com wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to ftp into my FreeBSD box. No matter what I do, > the FreeBSD box rejects my attempts to ftp. > > In my FreeBSD box, I entered the command: > > ps waux | grep ftpd > > and got nothing back. > > However, I am sure that inetd is running. Try: ftp 127.0.0.1 ftpd only starts up when inetd executes it. More likely you've a generic networking problem, in which case you'll have to supply IP addresses, masks etc. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message