Re: I wish to ask a silly question on starting an ftp server
On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 09:13, Crispin Wellington wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 22:05, shyamk wrote:
> >
> > How do you start an FTP server program ?
> > This might be a silly question , but it is
> > something for which I have no answer.
> >
> > In our server , we faced a two-fold problem :
> >
> > o One that we could not log-in as any user.This I solved
> > by entering single-user mode (on rebooting after we knew
> > something was wrong).
> > o The second thing is we can not ftp onto our server !
> > This has to mean that the FTP server program , was :
> > - either corrupted
> > - or not installed
> > - or mysteriously un-installed
> >
> > We settled for the first reason , because
> > /usr/sbin/in.ftpd
> > existed.
> >
> > Now I tried /usr/sbin/in.ftpd -S which is supposed to make the
> > daemon run.But when I did a
> > ps -A|less or ps -A|grep in.ftpd
> >
> > I did not find any semblance to ftp among the processes
> > displayed.
> >
> > Please help me out. My problem is extermely urgent.
>
I don't have any specific answers, but if you have ssh installed on the
server, I would suggest not using ftp, and instead use the sftp feature
of the ssh client. This may not be practical in your case, but it's
worth mentioning.
Kent
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