From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 22 20:35:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F4EA37B7B7 for ; Tue, 22 Feb 2000 20:35:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA02873; Tue, 22 Feb 2000 21:04:15 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 21:04:15 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: chris@tourneyland.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FTP and Telnet have stopped working Message-ID: <20000222210415.M21720@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <3.0.6.32.20000222223545.007f8a50@mail.9netave.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20000222223545.007f8a50@mail.9netave.net>; from chris@tourneyland.com on Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 10:35:45PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * chris@tourneyland.com [000222 21:01] wrote: > Hey all, > > I have a FreeBSD machine that is running fairly smoothly. Recently, > however, its telnet and FTP daemons seem to have stopped working. I can't > ftp or telnet in to it, even from the machine itself. I can ping it just > fine, and it can ping (and FTP) out just fine. > > The only thing I can think of, is fairly recently (maybe a week ago) a > friend telnetted in to install ssh for me. The time that FTP and telnet > stopped working corresponds fairly roughly to my first reboot after he > installed ssh. That made me think that maybe he disabled ftpd and telnetd > in my inetd.conf file, which then kicked in when I rebooted. But they're > untouched in inetd.conf. So much for that. Another piece of data: ftpd and > telnetd don't show up on a ps -aux, though I'm not sure if they ever do. > > Can anyone help? he may have disabled inetd entirely, look in /etc/rc.conf or /etc/defaults/rc.conf for: inetd_enable="NO" or ring him on the phone and ask what the $#@$@#@$# he did. :) the default install runs telnet/ftp from inetd so you shouldn't see them in ps unless active connections are going on. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message