Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 10:06:46 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: "Jay O'Brien" <jayobrien@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FTP stopped working Message-ID: <20060109080646.GA25172@flame.pc> In-Reply-To: <43C2146B.4060806@gmail.com> References: <43C2146B.4060806@gmail.com>
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On 2006-01-08 23:44, Jay O'Brien <jayobrien@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm embarassed to say that FreeBSD was working so good for me
> that I forgot how to make it work. It was up for over 300 days
> when I rebooted today.
Oops :)
> All of a sudden I cannot access the computer via ftp. I have
> been able to do so using WS_FTP Pro on my Windows CP Pro
> computer, but now it doesn't even seem to accept the connect.
> The connect is via a local LAN, using fixed IPs.
>
> Guidance in a troubleshooting mode would really be appreciated.
First check that you truly have the ftpd binary:
root@flame:/root# ls -l /usr/libexec/ftpd
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 96360 Jan 8 13:00 /usr/libexec/ftpd
Then see if ftpd is supposed to start as 'standalone' or as a
service controlled by inetd:
root@flame:/root# grep ftp /etc/rc.conf
root@flame:/root# grep inetd /etc/rc.conf
inetd_enable="YES"
root@flame:/root# pgrep inet
651
root@flame:/root# grep '^[[:space:]]*ftp' /etc/inetd.conf
ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/libexec/ftpd ftpd -l
If inetd is running, pgrep should report its PID as above.
Seeing no PID means that inetd failed to start. Your system logs
at /var/log/messages will almost certainly have clues about the
reason of the failure.
Then, start checking if something *is* listening at port 21:
root@flame:/root# netstat -na | fgrep LISTEN | grep [:.]21
tcp4 0 0 *.21 *.* LISTEN
root@flame:/root# sockstat -4 -l -p 21
USER COMMAND PID FD PROTO LOCAL ADDRESS FOREIGN ADDRESS
root inetd 651 5 tcp4 *:21 *:*
root@flame:/root#
If you don't have any indication how ftpd was started it's possible that
you manually fired up ftpd and then promptly forgot about it, until you
had to reboot. Stability is nice, isn't it? :)
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