[ale] wu-ftpd & inetd

[Frank Zamenski]

Something like that. From replies here and elsewhere so far, it's become
apparent
that RH changed it's installation options in 6.2 to better lock down the box
as a
default. Didn't know that at the time, but in retrospect the installer
sidebars were
trying to clue me more than I was capable of absorbing during my half-asleep
late
night install.

Short summary: admin error.

Lesson learned: make sure brain is 'on' when thinking might be a
requirement.
Thanks everyone for the replies.
--fgz


> From: "Eric Z. Ayers" <eric.ayers at mindspring.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 8:33 PM
> Subject: [ale] wu-ftpd & inetd


> It sounds like a bunch of packages might have been left out -
> e.g. maybe you  didn't click 'networked workstation' when you
> installed it?
>
>
> Frank Zamenski writes:
>  >
>  > New install of RH 6.2, picked workstation option. It looked like it
>  > installed everything on the CDROM, but I guess it didn't, as I went to
ftp
>  > into the box from Win, and couldn't. Well okay, no ftpd running,
>  > dunno why, I guess it was the ws install and maybe RH figured I didn't
want
>  > it. Wrong. Whatever. Okay, got new bugfixed (for now) wu-ftpd, went to
>  > install, thought it'd fire up it's own daemon then. Nope, it wouldn't
>  > install, it complained no inetd running! Jeesh. I thought all nix ran
that
>  > by default for gosh sakes! Ran Linuxconfig both at cmnd ln and in X
(damn,
>  > that thing is buggy with crashes, are they going to ever fix that??),
there
>  > weren't any inetd nor (of course) ftpd nor wu-ftpd ps's to even start!
Yet,
>  > it let me config what looks like is the orig wu-ftp from the CD. So it
did
>  > load? (Or was I only setting up cfg files?) But, I can't find it, thus
can't
>  > start it. Or install the new wu without inetd running. Which it won't,
cause
>  > I can't find inetd either. I don't recall having this grief with RH 6.0
nor
>  > 6.1. What's going on here? Admin error? Or is the new installer
starting to
>  > act like MS?
>  >
>  > Thanks again.
>  > -fgz
>  >
>  >
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