From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 17 04:50:29 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id EAA02939 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 17 Jul 1996 04:50:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cpmx.mail.saic.com (cpmx.mail.saic.com [139.121.95.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA02934 for ; Wed, 17 Jul 1996 04:50:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [198.151.14.5] by cpmx.mail.saic.com; Wed, 17 Jul 96 04:49:58 -0700 Received: from SAIC1/SpoolDir by BlueRidge-EF.SAIC.COM (Mercury 1.21); 17 Jul 96 07:50:00 -0400 Received: from SpoolDir by SAIC1 (Mercury 1.30); 17 Jul 96 07:48:28 -0400 From: "Tony Magner" Organization: SAIC BlueRidge Engineering Facility To: David Greenman , questions@FREEBSD.ORG Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 07:48:23 EDT -0400 Subject: Re: FTPD not loading on FBSD 2.1.1 Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v2.41) Message-Id: <31ecd367673c002@cpmx.mail.saic.com> Sender: owner-questions@FREEBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Thus spake David Greenman 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 -- Tony Magner -- Anthony.S.Magner@cpmx.saic.com (work) -- akmagner@interramp.com (home) PGP key: email maiser@blueridge-ef.saic.com with "finger magner" in the message body