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Date:      Tue, 18 Aug 1998 17:12:43 +0000 (GMT)
From:      "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu>
To:        Spidey <beaupran@JSP.UMontreal.CA>
Cc:        Questions=answers <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: ftpd installed, oh yeah?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980818171030.1365A-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980818184722.25013J-100000@outpost.nada.org>

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On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Spidey wrote:

>Allo!
>
>I had a little surprise testing my system today.
>
>I did:
>ftp localhost
>
>and could log in!!!
>
>How? There is a ftp server enabled by default???

Look in /usr/libexec for ftpd.
Look in /etc/inetd.conf to see if it is turned on.
Check that you actually have a loopback device and that localhost is
mapped to it.

Catchya Later,		|	UW Mechanical Engineering
Jason Wells		|	http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/


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