[ale] running proftpd as a child of xinetd

[H. A. Story]

Hi did you guys get this to work?

Every time I have installed proftpd I usually have a had time to get it 
to work just like I want. I don't use xinetd on my system.  Slackware 
has inetd by default?   But I had to put in the location of the config 
file  such that my inetd line has  proftpd -c /etc/proftpd.conf. 
Perhaps you need this in the server line???

Also,  Look over the proftpd.conf file and make sure that you don't have 
a setting conflicting with the xinetd.d/proftpd file.

Adrin


Dow Hurst wrote:
> rpcinfo -p "nameofhost"
> 
> so
> 
> rpcinfo -p science.kennesaw.edu
> 
> would try to query the portmapper on port 111 and request a list of RPC 
> services and mappings.
> 
> If you can get that while on the local host or remotely then that tells 
> you the portmapper is running and what RPC services are available either 
> locally or over the network.  NFS is a RPC service so it requires that 
> the portmapper be running.  So does FAM.
> Dow
> 
> 
> joh6nn wrote:
> 
>> Dow Hurst wrote:
>>
>>> sgi fam is the File Alteration Monitor and is a RPC service.  Looks 
>>> like the pmap_set message is a portmapper failure to set the address 
>>> for sgi_fam.  Are you starting up rpcbind/portmapper daemon 
>>> properly?  Also, make sure you can telnet to the  port your after 
>>> since you may have a firewall rule blocking your connection 
>>> inadvertently.  I'd double check the firewall rules first.
>>> Dow
>>
>>
>>
>> well, i know the firewall's not an issue since this worked fine when 
>> proftpd was standalone.  and i haven't messed with rpcbind/portmapper 
>> at all, so unless trying to move proftpd to xinetd caused some 
>> news-to-me side-effect, then that's exactly as it was when i was 
>> running proftpd as standalone (i should point out that, since i've 
>> only the vaguest of ideas what either of those do, for all i know, "as 
>> it was" could mean off or broken).
>>
>> supposing rpcbind/portmapper isn't running properly, how would i know, 
>> and how would i fix it?
>>
>>
>> --joh6nn
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