From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jan 6 4:55:51 2001 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 6 04:55:49 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.clones.com (unknown [216.70.178.182]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0DDD37B400 for ; Sat, 6 Jan 2001 04:55:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (gross@localhost) by mail.clones.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id EAA31077; Sat, 6 Jan 2001 04:56:58 -0800 Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2001 04:56:58 -0800 (PST) From: Glendon Gross To: "Chad Leigh, Pengar Enterprises, Inc & Shire.Net LLC" Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cannot ftp into box after 4.2-STABLE upgrade In-Reply-To: <3786286823.978743863@[192.168.99.123]> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Have you tried adding the hostname you are connecting from to /etc/hosts_allow? I recall having a similar problem when I first installed FreeBSD. Also, you may need '"inetd_enable = "YES"' in /etc/rc.conf. On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Chad Leigh, Pengar Enterprises, Inc & Shire.Net LLC wrote: > Hi All > > I had a 4.0 box that I upgraded to 4.2-STABLE. It is an internal test box. > > Now I cannot ftp into the box. It does not matter if I use inetd to start ftpd or if I remove it from inetd and start it by hand. I start it with ftpd -D -d -l and I don't get any log messages anywhere (and I added ftp.* and *.* to syslog.conf). > > If I try and ftp into the box I get (immediately) > > 421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection. > > If I look at the netstat -t is listening on *.ftp . A ps -ax | grep ftpd shows it running. The above message also comes when I start ftpd from inetd without -wW . > > I have tried everything. It never even asks for a username. /etc/ftpusers > does not get used in that case. ftp was working on this machine before the > upgrade. > > Any thoughts or comments to help me out? > > Thanks > Chad > > > Pengar Enterprises, Inc. and Shire.Net LLC > Web and Macintosh Consulting -- full service web hosting > Chad Leigh > chad@pengar.com chad@shire.net > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message