From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 8 9:27:46 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 8 09:27:43 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hyperreal.org (taz.hyperreal.org [209.133.83.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BF19B37B401 for ; Fri, 8 Dec 2000 09:27:42 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 14346 invoked by uid 12); 8 Dec 2000 17:27:42 -0000 Message-ID: <20001208172742.14345.qmail@hyperreal.org> From: mike@hyperreal.org Subject: Re: unable to access ftp on bsd unix In-Reply-To: <006901c0603d$2c734fc0$0100a8c0@STINFO001> from sivkumar at "Dec 7, 2000 04:32:21 pm" To: sivkumar Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 09:27:42 -0800 (PST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL60 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG sivkumar wrote: > sir, > Iam not able to access ftp on freebsd unix.Please clearify my problem as > early as possible. > Send your messages to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org. I am not your personal assistant; I am just a FreeBSD user like you. Note that root cannot login via ftp, as a security measure. See /etc/ftpusers for a list of users that cannot log in. Make sure the user that is trying to login has a shell that is listed in /etc/shells. Anonymous ftp is not available by default, either. Read the ftpd man page to find out how to set up anonymous ftp. Make sure /etc/inetd.conf has ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/libexec/ftpd ftpd -d -l -l and make sure /etc/syslog.conf has ftp.* /var/log/xferlog and then, as root, do: touch /var/log/xferlog kill -HUP `cat /var/run/inetd.pid` kill -HUP `cat /var/run/syslog.pid` Then you will be able to see all your FTP connection attempts in the file /var/log/xferlog. Good luck. - Mike ________________________________________________________________________ Mike Brown / Hyperreal | Hyperreal http://music.hyperreal.org/ PO Box 61334 | XML & XSL http://skew.org/xml/ Denver CO 80206-8334 USA | personal http://www.hyperreal.org/~mike/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message