proftpd not letting anyone in.

Geek yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Sun May 12 12:17:01 2002


Proftpd site would be the first place to look.  They also have a very 
active list; post this question there unless its YDL specific.  I think 
it is how you have it configured. Check your ports and make sure nothing 
else in xinetd is binding to the one needed.
On Saturday, May 11, 2002, at 10:38 PM, Al Arzaga wrote:

> Hello, folks.
>
> I've noticed that I'm unable to ftp into my YDL2.2 machine at all
> unless I run proftpd as a standalone daemon (as opposed to being 
> launched
> by xinetd).
>
> Has anyone had this problem?  When attempting to ftp to it, it
> gives me a "ftp: connect: Connection refused" before there's even
> a login prompt.
>
> However, when I run proftpd with debug on (using command
> /usr/local/sbin/proftpd -d9 -n) and altered the /etc/proftpd.conf
> to be abled to do so (switched to standalone), then it worked.
>
> But I'd like the daemon to run only when there's a connection, so
> I'd like to get this to work with xinetd.  Is anyone here
> familiar with how I can troubleshoot this?
>
>
> -Al
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