[ale] running proftpd as a child of xinetd

[Dow Hurst]

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




joh6nn wrote:

> David A. De Graaf wrote:
>
>> After creating this file, presumably  /etc/xinetd.d/proftpd ,
>> did you restart the server to reread those files?    
>> /etc/init.d/xinetd restart 
>> Did you notice in /var/log/messages a line similar to
>>   xinetd[28075]: Started working: 4 available services
>> with a number equal to those services that you intend to have running?
>>
>
> yeah, every time i made a change to the .conf, i restarted xinetd.
>
> grepping through /var/log/messages reveals that the following, 
> repeating for as many times as i tried to get this working:
>
> Feb 28 18:33:29 daedalus xinetd[29872]: pmap_set failed. 
> service=sgi_fam program=391002 version=2
> Feb 28 18:33:30 daedalus xinetd[29872]: Service sgi_fam failed to 
> start and is deactivated.
> Feb 28 18:33:30 daedalus xinetd[29872]: bind failed (Cannot assign 
> requested address (errno = 99)). service = ftp
> Feb 28 18:33:30 daedalus xinetd[29872]: Service ftp failed to start 
> and is deactivated.
> Feb 28 18:33:30 daedalus xinetd[29872]: 29872 {init_services} no 
> services. Exiting...
>
>
> it's nice to have some idea where to look for error messages now, so 
> thanks for that.  i'll get to googling those, but if anyone wants to 
> save me some time and just tell me what any of that means, that'd be 
> nice too.
> --joh6nn
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