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Re: ftp/telnet fails since upgrade



On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 03:02:54PM -0400, Chris Flipse wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 08:40:42PM +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote:
> 
> >I have, however, recently run into a problem. Since I upgraded, I can no
> >longer ftp or telnet to my machine. ("421 Service not available, remote
> >server has closed connection", and "Connection closed by foreign host").
> >I'm not sure if this started happening when I installed potato, or when
> >I installed kernel 2.2.7. I think it was the latter though.
> 
> It happened when you upgraded to Potato.
> 
> Potato seperates a lot of the services that used to be in one package
> into several packages...you want to install the telnetd package to be
> able to telnet to your box.  you'll probably want to look at the
> packages under net carefully to find out what other services you're
> missing...
> 

For the ftp problem, take a look at /etc/inetd.conf and see if the ftp
line has been commented out.  If so, remove the octothorpe (#).  There
might be more than one of these lines; you should only enable one.

Bob

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