First check the /etc/services file and make sure it has the ftp line with the
appropriate tcp port and is not commented out:

grep ftp /etc/services
ftp             21/tcp

Also make sure you have the ftp server installed. Examine the inetd.conf line
for the ftp program called from the tcp wrappers. it should be something like
in.ftpd   . This program will most likely reside in /usr/sbin if you don't have
it installed, grab a popular FTP server like wu-ftp from rpmfind.net

Hope it helps,
Mike Cantrell


Joel Dudley wrote:

> Ok well I guess there still is some newbieness in these weary NT bones.  I
> want enable FTP on my qmail server which currently has it disabled for
> security reasons.  What I did was edit inetd.conf such that ftp was no
> longer remarked out. I then did a 'killall -HUP inetd'.  However, I am still
> unable to ftp into my server.  Am I missing something simple here?? Any
> prmissions I may have messed up???  Thanks in advance for any help.
>
> - Joel
>
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