[ale] FTPD

[Joe Steele]

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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