From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 9 18:59:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mostgraveconcern.com (mostgraveconcern.com [216.82.145.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4073B37C25D for ; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 18:59:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@mostgraveconcern.com) Received: from danco (danco.mostgraveconcern.com [10.0.0.2]) by mostgraveconcern.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA09291; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 18:59:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@mostgraveconcern.com) Message-ID: <00b301bfea12$831ba080$0200000a@danco> Reply-To: "Dan O'Connor" From: "Dan O'Connor" To: , Subject: Re: how can i tell if ftp is working? Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 18:59:41 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >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. If you're running ftpd from inetd, you won't see until an FTP connection is made and inetd starts ftpd. Are you using a firewall, and if so, is it set up correctly to allow FTP? More info is needed... --Dan -- Dan O'Connor On Matters of Most Grave Concern http://www.mostgraveconcern.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message