still can't get ftp server running

syphon00 · 09-04-2002, 01:28 PM

I'm using WU-FTP
and I read through a bunch of man and following the
directions on this post

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...tup+ftp+server

when I restarted inetd with
killall -HUP inted, I got

inetd: no process killed

when I tried to log into the FTP I'm getting connection refused

what am I doing wrong?

thanks

hanzerik · 09-04-2002, 01:30 PM

what distro do you use? RedHat, Mandrake, etc.

acid_kewpie · 09-04-2002, 01:34 PM

trying to restart inetd which i'd be 90% sure you don't have. you have xinetd

syphon00 · 09-04-2002, 01:40 PM

I'm running Redhat 7.3 Pro
and I do have the inetd.conf file but I
also have xinetd

so what's the deal?

thanks

hanzerik · 09-04-2002, 01:55 PM

Look in /etc/xinetd.d/ for a file called wu-ftpd, open that file up in your fav editor and change disable=yes to disable=no,

restart xinetd

syphon00 · 09-04-2002, 02:10 PM

is

restart xinetd

the actual command to use?

syphon00 · 09-04-2002, 02:25 PM

ok I got it to work
but only the anonymous account works
what I actually wanted was to creat a guest user acct.

uid: test
usergroup: remote

so I modified the following in ftpaccess

allow-uid ftp,test
allow-gid ftp,remote
guestuser test

class all real,guest

the test user will need to have access to
/home/test
/home/test/upload (will have write access)

how do I make this work?

thanks a bunch

hanzerik · 09-04-2002, 02:30 PM

Do you have a user called test?
adduser test
passwd test

when this is done, user test will have thier own /home/test directory that they should be able to ftp into.

syphon00 · 09-04-2002, 03:27 PM

thanks
everything works now

hanzerik · 09-04-2002, 04:05 PM

Can you tell us what you did to fix it?
So other people with the same problem can perform forum searches and find the answer also.

thx

syphon00 · 09-04-2002, 04:49 PM

there really wasn't much to it all I had to do
was add the user and make it was also defined
in ftpaccess
I think the misunderstanding I had was
that guest user and real user are very different
real user requires more to setup