I have two problems:

One, I can't get a secure ftp client to work on my Mandrake 9.1 os, when I turn it on Postfix stops working. I have tried proftpd and vsftpd.

Two, when I turn on shorewall, you can no longer access any of the websites (3) on the server.

These two things are happening on the same machine.

Thanks,

Michele

To get the websites viewable, I think you need to add this line to /etc/shorewall/rules (I haven't used shorewall in a long time)
Not too sure why postfix and secure ftp don't work together.

--mascdman

Ok, Thank you, I added the line and started shorewall and it appears to have worked, now on to vsftpd.

Thanks so much.

Michele

Are there any error messages reported by postfix or vsftpd?

--mascdman

No, that was what was so weird maskedman, there weren't . Postfix complained about differences in the alias
files, but I solved that by copying over the /etc/postfix/aliases to /etc/aliases and then
it was happy.

But, as I was looking through here I noticed some other posts
about the secure ftp programs, namely proftpd and vsftpd
and they indicated that in the conf file the anonymous user
must be enabled. Which I don't understand because
I thought that was a bad thing to do. But when I did it and restarted
vsftpd everything is working now including the websites and shorewall.

Who knew?

Michele

Yeah, that is weird. If you're careful with anonymous access enabled it's alright. You may wish to configure anonymous logins to be chrooted and download-only (or disable deleting files and resuming uploads). Glad to hear it's working, though.

--mascdman