[Nolug] RH ftp problem solved

Thanks to everybody who replied when I posted this problem a few days
ago (Scott and Manuel at least; anybody else, you know who you are!). I
finally got around to seriously looking at it today. Red Hat uses
xinetd. I shut down and restarted it, and found a bunch of log
messages to the effect that various network services (not just ftp) were
disabled. Looking at the directory /etc/xinetd.d, there is a
 configuration file for each service. The ftpd file contained the line
"disable = yes". I changed it to "disable = no", restarted xinetd, and
of course ftp worked. This is a fresh system, I've only been working
with it a couple of weeks. I know that ftp worked right out of the box,
so it wasn't disabled at the time. All the files in the /etc/xinetd.d
directory have dates in the June/July/August/Sept 2001 range (except for
the one I modified today). Weird.

M.R.F.

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