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From: Cliff <cliffo@u.washington.edu>
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Yeah, xinetd is strange and new.  I haven't yet figured it out, but I can
comment that you should NOT have to manually start the ftp daemon.  "xinetd"
will handle this by itself the same way that inetd starts ftpd by itself.

Also, do you have ipchains set to deny all incoming connections (thus your
need to specifically allow port 21 connections)?  I've never had to do
that...I just kill the daemons that I don't want running and leave ipchains
alone...unless you're allowing ftp connections through a firewall or have
masquerading enabled on the ftp machine that is...

Cliff

Parker Thompson wrote:

> Installed redhat 7.0 to discover that inetd.conf has been replaced by this
> crazy xinetd scheme.  I didn't install ftp by default but have seence been
> implored to make that happen (obviously I failed to some extent).
>
> I first adjusted my ipchains rules to allow connections to port 21, then
> started the ftp deamon.  I seem to still be having a problem with xinetd
> allowing connections.  In /var/log/messages I see:
>
>   Nov  3 08:30:44 darwin xinetd[4243]: refused connect from 140.142.15.106
>
> after an ftp connection attempt.  Here is my xinetd.conf:
>
>         defaults
>         {
>                 instances               = 60
>                 log_type                = SYSLOG authpriv
>                 log_on_success          = HOST PID
>                 log_on_failure          = HOST RECORD
>         }
>
>         includedir /etc/xinetd.d
>
> Here are the contents of /etc/inetd.d/wu-ftpd
>
>         service ftp
>         {
>                 socket_type             = stream
>                 wait                    = no
>                 user                    = root
>                 server                  = /usr/sbin/in.ftpd
>                 server_args             = -l -a
>                 log_on_success          += DURATION USERID
>                 log_on_failure          += USERID
>                 nice                    = 10
>         }
>
> I'd imagine I'm just missing something simple here.  Darn this fancy new
> scheme and it's differing ways.
>
> Any help apreciated,
>
> Parker.

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