Cant use FTP

[goon12]

I am running Mandrake 7.2, and people can telnet to me fine, but they cant ftp me. When I try it, i get a message saying the service isnt available. I looked in the /etc/inetd.conf file, and it looks ok to me. What else might I have to do to get this to work?

[nathaniel]

check to make sure that you actually have ftp packages installed rpm -qa |grep ftp <<--look for "server". I'm not fimilar w/ mdrake and if it has rpms but on RH I thought I installed them but I was missing one.
also do a ps -aux |grep ftp for a process of ftp, u might not even have one running. if ppl are telnetin' to u and u want more security I really recomend ssh.

NB

[goon12]

Thanks for the help. It's up and running now :)