This problems seems kinda strange and have been unable to find the problem.

Proftpd has been up and running, stable, with no problems EXCEPT if I change the port to anything other than 21.

If changed this is what happens

connected
[server name stuff]
[username stuff]
[password stuff]
connection successfull !!!

So everything logged in a-okay.... BUT if you ...... for example

ftp> ls
PORT COMMAND SUCCESSFULL


and that's it... it just hangs there and never lists.
I don't get anything in the log file either for a possible problem.
I've looked over the config file countless times as well have tried webmin as a more user friendly config tool.

Any ideas on why it would respond to 21 the way it's supposed to but act weird on any other ??

(note: I use iptables... it is not blocking pasv ranges or the port I'm setting it too so firewall is not the problem)

Hey, I had the same problem a couple months ago. But it works fine without port 21. It has to do something with passive ports. And if you're behind a firewall (I have a hardware firewall) then you have to set that port to be open and forward that port to that specific computer.

I currently ain't on that computer right now, but when I get a change, I'll look at my config file and stuff and reply again.

thanx.

still haven't figured out the stupid problem yet