Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 07:48:23 EDT -0400 From: "Tony Magner" <magner@BlueRidge-ef.saic.com> To: David Greenman <davidg@root.com>, questions@FREEBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FTPD not loading on FBSD 2.1.1 Message-ID: <31ecd367673c002@cpmx.mail.saic.com>
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Thus spake David Greenman <davidg@root.com> on 16 Jul 96 about Re: FTPD
not loading on FBSD 2.1.1:
>>I hope somebody can help me!
>>
>>My BSD system has been running flawlessly for months until this past
>>weekend sometime. What has happened now is that ftpd, telnetd, and Samba
>>will not load. Even manually starting ftpd results in errors about
>>getpeername and getsockname. I'm using wu-ftpd 2.4. Any ideas? Think
>>the host table or maybe the kernel got screwed up? Please help as I'm
>>desparate.
>
> You can't start ftpd manually. It is written to be spawned from inetd and
>is expecting to inherit the socket file descriptor on stdin/stdout.
> It sounds like you're not starting inetd anymore in your /etc/rc file.
>
But inetd *is* called from /etc/rc. The other thing is I can ftp to
localhost with no problem so ftpd *must* be running...right? Anything
else to check?
Can you explain further this "socket file descriptor"?
TIA
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