FTP Not working

[dpalme]

I have enabled FTP in the inetd.conf but for whatever reason it never seems to start up.

Any suggestions on what else to look at?

[marius]

Check if inetd (ftpd) is listening on port 21

sockstat -46

[dpalme]

I did the sockstat -46 and it shows other things running but not ftp:

USER COMMAND PID FD PROTO LOCAL ADDRESS FOREIGN ADDRESS
root sshd 718 3 tcp4 192.168.0.150:22 192.168.0.50:1943
root sendmail 635 4 tcp4 127.0.0.1:25 *:*
root sshd 620 3 tcp6 *:22 *:*
root sshd 620 4 tcp4 *:22 *:*
root syslogd 506 6 udp6 *:514 *:*
root syslogd 506 7 udp4 *:514 *:*
WWW#

[marius]

Try to start inetd manually

/etc/rc.d/inetd forcestart

[dpalme]

at least from looking at the sockstat -46

WWW# sockstat -46
USER COMMAND PID FD PROTO LOCAL ADDRESS FOREIGN ADDRESS
root inetd 751 5 tcp4 *:21 *:*
root sshd 718 3 tcp4 192.168.0.150:22 192.168.0.50:1943
root sendmail 635 4 tcp4 127.0.0.1:25 *:*
root sshd 620 3 tcp6 *:22 *:*
root sshd 620 4 tcp4 *:22 *:*
root syslogd 506 6 udp6 *:514 *:*
root syslogd 506 7 udp4 *:514 *:*

But I am concerned that it did not start with a reboot, actually several reboots

[dpalme]

I figured I would try rebooting and see what happened.....well it did not load.....

[marius]

To make it start with the operating system, add the following line to /etc/rc.conf

inetd_enable="YES"

All daemons you want to load at startup should be added to that file.

[dpalme]

ok thanks I really appreciate the help