FTP Newbie Question

[fantasma]

Hello-

I'm trying to ftp into my Redhat 6.1 machine but get this mesg., "421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection." Ftp is installed on my machine. What is the process and where is the .conf file needed to set up ftp to allow client connections?

Thanks Much

[Paul Weaver]

you need something like wu-ftp installed, then uncomment the line in /etc/inetd.conf

I'm not sure on what redhat has installed by default, you might just need to uncomment the lime

in my debian dist, it looks like this

#ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.ftp
d


just take out the # and see what happens

[fantasma]

Paul-

Thanks for responding to my question. I should have mentioned, the line in inetd.conf is uncommented and I have ftp installed. Forgive the sophomorish aspect of this question but, I'm not sure or not if its even started. I checked running processes and saw nothing "ftp". Help much appreciated.