I havejsut installed Red Hat Linux Advanced Server. I am currently trying to get an FTP session between Linux and a Windows XP machine.
Currently this is not possible, and a grep of a ps -aux does not indicate
the presence of a FTP daemon. Additionally, netstat shows that the system is not listening on port 21 which I believe is reserved for FTP.
I can get the FTP prompt on the Linux box and Telnet is working ok between the two machines. In the directory /etc/inet.d, the file vsftpd has
the following settings:

disable = no
socket_type = stream
wait = no
user = root
server = /usr/bin/vsftpd
nice = 10

Could anyone suggest how to start off the FTP service ?

Many Thanks
Bau.

run the binary from where ever you put it, e.g.,

# /usr/local/sbin/vsftpd &

more info:
ftp://vsftpd.beasts.org/users/cevans...-1.2.1/INSTALL

a good way to test if your linux box is runing a service on a port is to from the command line....

telnet localhost 21 <---port number that the daemon is listening on.

Thanks for the suggestions -

I tried the command /usr/local/sbin/vsftpd &
it fails - seems that /usr/local/sbin is empty.. ? any ideas guys..

regards

Bau

Not at a Red Hat box ATM, but:

/usr/local is for manually compiled software, and you're probably using the supplied package. The config. snippet you've posted suggests that xinetd is looking for /usr/bin/vsftpd.

From memory, because vsftpd is managed by xinetd, the TCP port is controlled by xinetd, which only loads the vsftpd program when needed - so the vsftpd process isn't often running. If netstat says nothing is listening on the port you need to look at xinetd. I think that you also need to restart xinetd after changing settings in the files in xinetd.d for the changes to take effect.