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Re: ftpd

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Canary)
Mon Nov 23 01:49:41 1998

Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 00:50:19 -0600
From: Robert Canary <rwcanary@ohiocounty.net>
Reply-To: rwcanary@mail.lig.bellsouth.net
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Hi Andy,

The in.ftpd is a commandline variable that is passed to the tcpd
deamon.  See the man pages for tcpd as I can't do it justice (it still
confussing me). 'in.ftpd' should be located in your /usr/sbin directory.

--
robert

Andy Davidson wrote:
> 
> I am sorely puzzled.  I just tried to transfer a file between two machines
> here on a local net (192.168.x.x) and got the connected message, then after
> a delay
>         "421 Service not available..."
> I look at /etc/inetd.conf and ftp is listed with an entry that reads
>         ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.ftpd -l -a
> However, there *is* no in.ftpd.  Why not?   What has gone wrong?  I think
> this worked once....  I am running RedHat 5.1
> 
>         andy
> 
>         Andy Davidson   --- Pheon Research --- 503-537-0985
>            If you know what you're doing, you're not learning anything.
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