From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 17 08:24:12 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 868F616A4CE for ; Tue, 17 Feb 2004 08:24:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.mailbox.co.uk (smtp.mailbox.net.uk [195.82.125.32]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53FB043D1D for ; Tue, 17 Feb 2004 08:24:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from waynep@smtp.penguinpowered.org) Received: from [212.18.250.170] (helo=smtp.penguinpowered.org) by smtp.mailbox.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 1At811-0002yf-00; Tue, 17 Feb 2004 16:24:07 +0000 Received: from waynep by smtp.penguinpowered.org with local (Exim 4.30; FreeBSD) id 1At81e-000KEp-LQ; Tue, 17 Feb 2004 16:24:46 +0000 Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 16:24:46 +0000 From: Wayne Pascoe To: Marty Landman Message-ID: <20040217162446.GB77332@marvin.penguinpowered.org> References: <6.0.0.22.0.20040217111500.049a6db0@pop.face2interface.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.0.20040217111500.049a6db0@pop.face2interface.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-System: FreeBSD i386 with kernel 5.1-RELEASE-p10 Sender: Wayne Pascoe cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: can't connect to ftp server X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 16:24:12 -0000 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 has > > ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/libexec/ftpd ftpd -l > ftp stream tcp6 nowait root /usr/libexec/ftpd ftpd -l Couple of things to check... 1. Does /usr/libexec/ftpd exist 2. Is there anything listening on port 21 (netstat -an | grep LISTEN | grep 21) 3. Check the contents of /var/log/messages Hope that helps... -- Wayne Pascoe A good sysadmin always carries around a few feet of fiber. If he gets lost, he simply drops the fiber on the ground, waits 10 minutes and asks the backhoe operator for directions - Bill Bradford