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Date:      Sat, 03 May 2003 18:27:18 -0700 (PDT)
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Mikko_Ty=F6l=E4j=E4rvi?= <mbsd@pacbell.net>
To:        SPD <blairsp@dca.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ftpd under 4.8
Message-ID:  <20030503182459.D47305@atlas.home>
In-Reply-To: <3EB441D2.4080807@dca.net>
References:  <3EB441D2.4080807@dca.net>

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On Sat, 3 May 2003, SPD wrote:

> Hello:
>
>    I was running a very old release of FreeBSD on
> a home server for years. I just upgraded to the
> production release of 4.8 and found that ftp
> connections into the server fail with a
> connection refused message. sshd works for
> virtual terminal sessions. A quick look through
> various config files and online documentation
> doesn't solve the problem. Is this a know issue
> with 4.8? Does anyone know how to configured
> the server to accept ftp connections?

I think the default /etc/inetd.conf has all services disabled by
default nowadays.  Uncomment the line for ftp and "killall -1 inetd".
If that is not the problem, you may have firewalling (ipfw) enabled.

   $.02,
   /Mikko



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