From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 1 08:48:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA05471 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 1 Jul 1996 08:48:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from net1.netview.net (netview.net [199.3.74.250]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA05463 for ; Mon, 1 Jul 1996 08:48:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from corona (corona.netview.net [206.223.98.2]) by net1.netview.net (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id KAA03647 for ; Mon, 1 Jul 1996 10:48:32 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 10:48:32 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <2.2.32.19960701110456.009290e0@netview.net> X-Sender: jrclark@netview.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: questions@freebsd.org From: John Clark Subject: wu_ftpd port "Service not available" Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello, I have been trying to use the Washington University FTP daemon. It will not allow me to login: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 220 net1.netview.net FTP server (Version wu-2.4(3) Mon Jul 1 10:07:50 EST 1996) ready. Name (netview.net:sa): root 221 Server shutting down. Goodbye. 421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection ------------------------------------------------------------------------- And yes, I do know that root is in the "disallowed" list, but the above is the same message I get for any user: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 220 net1.netview.net FTP server (Version wu-2.4(3) Mon Jul 1 10:43:43 EST 1996) ready. Name (netview.net:sa): sa 221 Server shutting down. Goodbye. 421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection ------------------------------------------------------------------------- It would seem that it should be a simple matter to fix this, but for the life of me, I don't know how. In the past, I have used wu_ftpd without a hitch. I think it is the crazy shadow-passwords database system that FreeBSD uses that is confusing the server??? Also, please note the number in parentheses on my server (3): ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 220 net1.netview.net FTP server (Version wu-2.4(3) Mon Jul 1 10:07:50 EST 1996) ready. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The cdrom.com server is a bit different: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 220 wcarchive.cdrom.com FTP server (Version wu-2.4(17) Sat Jun 22 21:37:48 PDT 1996) ready. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- What does that mean? A revision number? Thanks, John Clark [jc@netview.net]