From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 23 8:53:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hydrant.intranova.net (hydrant.intranova.net [209.201.95.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C3F7237B928 for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2000 08:53:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from oogali@intranova.net) Received: (qmail 1426 invoked from network); 23 Feb 2000 16:53:25 -0000 Received: from localhost (user53970@127.0.0.1) by 209.201.95.10 with SMTP; 23 Feb 2000 16:53:25 -0000 Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 11:53:21 -0500 (EST) From: Omachonu Ogali To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: chris@tourneyland.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FTP and Telnet have stopped working In-Reply-To: <20000222210415.M21720@fw.wintelcom.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Also for future use...use killall -1 inetd to restart inetd thatn to waste time and reboot the machine every time a change is made, this isn't Windows ya know... On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * 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 > -- +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Omachonu Ogali oogali@intranova.net | | Intranova Networking Group http://tribune.intranova.net | | PGP Key ID: 0xBFE60839 | | PGP Fingerprint: C8 51 14 FD 2A 87 53 D1 E3 AA 12 12 01 93 BD 34 | +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message