From owner-freebsd-net Sun May 21 12: 0: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from smtpf.casema.net (smtpf.casema.net [195.96.96.173]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7411E37B935 for ; Sun, 21 May 2000 12:00:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from aernoudt@wanadoo.nl) Received: (qmail 15674 invoked by uid 0); 21 May 2000 19:00:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO wanadoo.nl) (212.64.80.120) by smtpf.casema.net with SMTP; 21 May 2000 19:00:03 -0000 Message-ID: <39283216.75A95EB6@wanadoo.nl> Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 20:59:34 +0200 From: AB X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: de, en, nl, fr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Maxim Konovalov Cc: Assar Westerlund , freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ftpd error message: can somebody explain me what it means ? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Maxim Konovalov wrote: > > > AB writes: > > > No matter how many books/man pages I read, I can not find the > > > explanation for this error message: > > > > > > ftpd[proces-ID] "getpeername (/usr/libexec/ftpd): socket operation on > > > non-socket" > > > > ftpd assumes it has been started from inetd and therefore that file > > descriptor 0 is a TCP-socket. If this is not the case you get the > > error you quotes above. > > > > I repeat: ftpd has to be started by inetd (or something inetd-like). > > > > /assar > > But if you steel want to run standalone ftpd try > > # /usr/libexec/ftpd -D -4 > > It works for me. Does not work for me however: the following is the error message I get when I use this ftpd[proces-ID]: control socket: protocol not supported That is strange since the kernel has the options for INET, INET6 (the not supported error message) Aernoudt -- Aernoudt Bottemanne * Powered by FreeBSD * http://www.freebsd.org http://www.openbsd.org http://www.nlfug.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message