wu-ftpd Redhat 7.1 problems

[wildbillm]

Hello,

This is my first post to linuxnewbie, so bare with me.

I am having problems getting wu-ftpd running on my Redhat Linux 7.1 box. RH7.1 doesn't use inetd, but it does use xinetd.

I gone into the /etc/xinetd.d directory and changed the wu-ftpd "disable yes" to "disable no"

When I run a "chkconfig --list | more" I do see the xinetd service wu-ftpd on.

I can ftp to my ip address and to the hostname on the console, but I can't from a workstation sitting next to it. However, I can ping the server from the workstation.

The error I am getting from the workstation is, "ftp: connect: Connection refused"

I thought maybe it might be the ipchains firewall, so I shutdown the ipchains service on all run levels by typing:
chkconfig --level # ipchains off

Till all of the runlevels were turned off. I tried it again and I still can't get it to work.

Any suggestion on what to try next or am I leaving something out?

Thanks,
WildBillm

email address:wmoun$ey@yahoo.com
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[wildbillm]

Well, after playing with it some more and doing some more reading on the net I solved my problem and decided to post it here incase someone else is having the same problem.

It turned out that the problem was with the firewall. When I turned off the firewall on the runlevels, I forgot to reboot.

Instead of rebooting, I found a statement on how to shutdown services:

service ipchains stop

The service then shuts down and I tried to FTP to the server and it worked...

So it was my default ipchains firewall configuration that was blocking it..

WildBillM