I've been setting up ftp on my Linux 7 desktop PC as I did on my laptop PC and linuxconf gives identical setups and it works on the laptop but not on the desktop, I get the error: [caa@puaa ~]# ftp roundoff Connected to roundoff.hi.gemini.edu. 421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection when trying to ftp into the desktop from elsewhere. is there anything I can do to trace what this error means and fix it? thanks. colin aspin
Chances are you didn't install the server then. Install the wu-ftpd, anonftp and xinetd packages, then do chkconfig wu-ftpd on chkconfig --level 345 xinetd on service xinetd restart
Did it but still 421 service not available. Output from chkconfig --list is: xinetd based services: linuxconf-web: off wu-ftpd: on tftp: off ftp: off auth: on finger: on ntalk: off talk: off rexec: off rlogin: on telnet: on rsh: on the same as on my laptop on which ftp works. Any more ideas? thanks!
Do you get anything in /var/log/messages?
A-ha! /var/logs/messages said: Feb 9 14:16:26 roundoff xinetd[1902]: execv( /usr/etc/in.ftpd ) failed: Permission denied (errno = 13) so I changed the in.ftpd a+x and it now works! Thanks very much! colin aspin