[ale] FTPD

[Ankur Chatterjee]

Thanks for your response... I had to hand tweak some of the xinetd configs
in the xinetd.d directory, they just weren't being parsed correctly...
everything works as it should now. You're obvisouly correct about the
exiting without status and not showing up in the process list, I had
forgotten that the (x)inetd daemon is the handler for such services.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ale at ale.org [mailto:owner-ale at ale.org]On Behalf Of Joe
To: ale at ale.org
Steele
Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 4:03 PM
To: 'Ankur Chatterjee'
Cc: ale at ale.org
Subject: RE: [ale] FTPD


Clarify what you mean by "exits without any status message
and doesn't show up in a process list."

Are you implying that you are starting the daemon from the
command prompt and it immediately exits without any status
message and doesn't show up in a process list?

If that is what you mean, then the behavior is correct.  The
daemon is meant to be started by (x)inetd with its standard
I/O connected to an open socket.  It won't work to run it from
the command prompt, and it won't show up in a process list
except when an ftp connection has been established.

Of course, maybe you mean something else.  I just mention it
because sometimes it's easy to overlook the simple things.

--Joe

-----Original Message-----
From:	Ankur Chatterjee [SMTP:ankur at 5sc.net]
Sent:	Tuesday, July 03, 2001 2:23 PM
To:	ale at ale.org
Subject:	[ale] FTPD

I feel silly bringing this up. I've been working with linux for years now,
and I just upgraded a web server to 7.1, and neglected to enable FTP, in
pursuit of more secure methods such as SFTP. Well the customers are
revolting and shouting obscenities about Linux and SSH - so I'm trying to
re-enable wu-ftpd 2.6.1. I installed the RPM, checked the configs, and all
seems in place... I'm using xinetd, instead of inetd, could that be an
issue? I even tried removing the RPM'd version, and compiling from source,
and the daemon does not stay active, it simply exits without any status
message and doesn't show up in a process list. Any input??

- Ankur Chatterjee
  Network Engineer
  Five Star Communications
  mobile: 678/612.5033
  e-mail: ankur at 5sc.net

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