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Subject: Re: ftp hosed
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SC5.4.10.9902190917440.4684-100000@kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz> from Jonathan Chen at "Feb 19, 99 09:19:52 am"
To: jonc@pinnacle.co.nz (Jonathan Chen)
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 13:46:45 -0800 (PST)
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According to Jonathan Chen:
> On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Gary Kline wrote:
> 
> >   I rebuilt my (2.2.8) kernel last weekend and brought my /etc/rc.local
> >   file up to date... but now  I cannot ftp into my main workstation,
> >   tao.  Neither from here at work or from tao's ethernett'd neighbor,
> >   sage.
> > 
> >   A cursory comparison of my /etc/* configuration files doesn't tell
> >   me anything---at least, nothing jumps out at me.  Anybody know what
> >   I did to wreck ftp?  ...and what, if anything, is likely to be the
> >   next gotcha?!
> 
> /etc/shells?
> /etc/inetd.conf has ftp enabled?
> ftpd exists (as listed in inetd.conf)?
> inetd running?
> 
> I take it that all other IP stuff is working, though?
> 

	As far as I can tell, all other things-IP work.
	I've got inetd set up; ps ax sees it.
	Hmm.  No _way_ it could be /etc/shells unless I
	overwrote it while I was in a coma..

	Arrgh!!!!! 9^9^9

	It was /etc/shells.  I've used the zsh ever since
	Paul Falsted wrote it; and this is what I get for
	using something `non-standard'...

	Comment|suggestion: have future version of /etc/shell
	default list

	/bin/sh
	/bin/csh
	/bin/zsh
	/usr/local/bin/tcsh
	/usr/local/bin/ksh
	/usr/local/bin/bash


	and|or, have ftp/chpass issue a warning like, "Hey, you
	ain got no shell, Pal."


	Mffph...

	Thank you much! 

	gary



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