Re: vsftpd problems

[Johann Spies <jspies@sun.ac.za>]

On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 09:12:54AM -0700, ric@otte.ucsc.edu wrote:
> I installed vsftpd but am unable to connect to my machine using ftp.  I
> believe my inetd.conf file is correct; it has the line;
> ftp             stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/sbin/tcpd
> /usr/sbin/vsftpd
> 

You could nmap the machine to check on which ports it is listening.

Did you restart inetd after installing and configuring vsftpd?

I use it on a ftp-server with xinetd and it works nicely.

Regards.
Johann
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