hello all,

here i come with a very simple prolem but which is very irritating..

i am running a slackware 10.1 on my machine.. my problm is that i am not able to FTP into my machine from other machines.. this means that ftp server is not running on my m/c.. so i try to run proftpd and i get a error which tells me to change my ServerType to 'standalone' and i do that in /etc/proftpd.conf. and now i again start my server running 'proftpd start'. No error.. i try to ftp into machine.. still not doing it.. i do a ps -ax but i do not see proftpd running.. i check /var/log/proftpd and here is the output..

Failed binding to 0.0.0.0 port 21, address already in use
check the server type directive to ensure you are configured correctly.

in inetd.conf, i have uncommented the ftp server line so that ftp server runs at the boot time..

HOW DO I FTP IN MY MACHINE??

regards

xing

So look at /etc/proftpd.conf file and find a stroke that says what IP and what port number to listen for connections on your server [what IP:port to bind to].

If you changed your proftpd.conf to standalone then you must comment out (i.e. put a # in front) the line that refers to the ftp server. Or else the inetd daemon will listen to port 21 for incoming connections.

well .. i made the ServerType standalone in proftpd.conf and commented the ftp row in inetd.conf file, rebooted the machine and on next boot ran proftpd and Voila! ptoftpd runs..

so but as soon as i uncomment ftp row in inetd.conf and reboot, the same error reappears.. so i am not able to intialize the proftpd at the boot.. what can be the problem now and what possible solution...

regards

xing

Mmmm.... may be service start sequence? Check if it OK.
And look at your startup logs please

If you want to run proftpd via inetd then change the ServerType to inetd in proftpd.conf and uncommnet the line in /etc/inetd.conf
If you prefer standalone mode then comment out that line in /etc/inetd.conf and add a line to your /etc/rc.d/rc.local like this:

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