problem with proftpd

[dsgdevil]

i installed proftpd successfully on many computers before but on this redhat 9 i got from my dad,it wont work. i downloaded the rpm and installed it with the rpm -Uvh command as usual,then when i typed in service proftpd start,the program started.howeve,when i went for a test drive, the konsole came back with connection refused. I'm possitive that i've done everything right. If you know how to fix this problem please reply. thanks.

Oh and when i log in using gnome,it gives me some message about cant finding my ip. wonder if that could be related.... :confused:

[YogaFrog]

how dows your proftpd.conf look?

[Rickead2000]

It sounds to me that the problems with proftpd are just a symptom of some more serious networking problems.

Check in your /etc/hosts file that 127.0.0.1 is mapped to the localhost correctly.

Also check that the loopback interface has been sucessfully brought up, you can do this by typing $ifconfig lo. Try pinging 127.0.0.1

You could also try restarting the network service $service network restart. Note, you will need to be root to run most, if not all of these commands.

If your RH9 box is behind a network, then it will be inaccessible to the outside world until you tell the gateway to forward all packets on port 21 to your proftpd box.

A simple hosts file should look like this:-

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost