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Date:      Tue, 16 Jul 1996 19:07:38 -0700
From:      David Greenman <davidg@root.com>
To:        "Tony Magner" <magner@BlueRidge-ef.saic.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.ORG
Subject:   Re: FTPD not loading on FBSD 2.1.1 
Message-ID:  <199607170207.TAA08935@root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 16 Jul 1996 10:03:38 EDT." <31eba1902b14002@cpmx.mail.saic.com> 

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>I hope somebody can help me!
>
>My BSD system has been running flawlessly for months until this past 
>weekend sometime.  What has happened now is that ftpd, telnetd, and Samba 
>will not load.  Even manually starting ftpd results in errors about 
>getpeername and getsockname.  I'm using wu-ftpd 2.4.  Any ideas?  Think 
>the host table or maybe the kernel got screwed up?  Please help as I'm 
>desparate.

   You can't start ftpd manually. It is written to be spawned from inetd and
is expecting to inherit the socket file descriptor on stdin/stdout.
   It sounds like you're not starting inetd anymore in your /etc/rc file.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project



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