ftp'ing to a newly created RedHat box.

Hi vinnie,

Did you enable the ftp service before you restarted xinetd ? probably 
not ;-)

Enable the ftp service in a file called something like /etc/xinetd.d/wu-ftpd
-> disable = no

restart xinetd ( kill -1 <pid> ) after making the change

Michel Hendriks
The Netherlands



> Hello,
> I'm trying to ftp over to a box which was just created runing redHat Linux
> and
> all I'm getting is:
>
> ftp testvg
> ftp: connect: Connection refused
>
> I could ftp from the Linux box to outside but not from outside to the 
> Linux
> box.
> I had been working with these files but not luck so far:
>
>  4 -rw-------    1 root     root         1906 Mar 12  2002 ftpaccess
>  4 -rw-------    1 root     root          464 Mar 12  2002 ftpconversions
>  4 -rw-------    1 root     root           39 Mar 12  2002 ftpgroups
>  4 -rw-------    1 root     root          113 Oct 15 14:40 ftphosts
>  4 -rw-------    1 root     root          145 Oct 15 14:05 ftpusers
>
> I had removed the "root" user from the file ftpusers and have also added
> machine name to ftphosts and restrated the xinetd process but nothing 
> seems
> to
> work. Can someone shed a light here.
> Thanks,
> Vinnie.
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