Well, changing the hosts.allow to proftpd from ftp seems to have done the
trick.  Thanks for the help.

Also, I am a big fan of ssh and scp and use the all the time.  This server
will be for anonymous ftp -- but the ssh/scp plug needs to be reiterated
again and again :).

Thanks,

julian

On Fri, 08 Dec 2000 22:12:10 Larry Schmid wrote:
> On Friday 08 December 2000 19:13, you wrote:
> > Hey Everyone,
> >
> > I recently installed proftpd onto my system.  I am having probles
> getting
> > it to work through inetd.  I have the following line in my inetd.conf
> file:
> >
> > ftp     stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/sbin/tcpd 
> /usr/sbin/proftpd
> >
> >  and then added the following line to my hosts.allow file:
> >
> > ftp: LOCAL
> >
> > When I try to log in, ftp localhost, I get the following:
> >
> > 421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection
> >
> > and this appears in /var/log/messages:
> >
> > topeka proftpd[16675]: refused connect from catchen@127.0.0.1
> >
> > When I change the hosts.allow file to ALL: ALL it works.  Does anyone
> know
> > why this isn't?
> 
> 
> Try using the specific name of the daemon in hosts.allow. As in:
> 
> proftpd: LOCAL
> 
> 
> Also, the LOCAL keyword matches any hostname without a dot.  If the 
> /etc/hosts file lists:
> 
> 127.0.0.1    localhost.localdomain  localhost
> 
> as some Linux distros default to, then your hostname will resolve to 
> localhost.localdomain and the LOCAL keyword will cause tcpd to refuse 
> connection.
> 
> secure shell plug:  Unless you have a specific circumstance in which you
> need 
> ftp, you might consider installing ssh.  The included scp (secure copy) 
> allows encrypted authentication and transfers, as well as being able to 
> transfer whole directory trees.  ssh also works with tcp wrappers.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Larry
> 
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