Date:  Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:37:40 -0600
From:  "Al Cooper" <alc (at mark) hmcnetworks.com>
Subject:  [coba-e:13750] Re: FTP Server Problems
To:  <coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org>
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Thanks for your response Gerald,

I restart xinetd as you suggested and got no errors:  

[root (at mark) mail1 ~]# /etc/init.d/xinetd restart
Stopping xinetd:                                           [  OK  ]
Starting xinetd:                                           [  OK  ]

And tried to connect to FTP again and got the same error.

[root@mail1 ~]# ftp localhost
ftp: connect: Connection refused
ftp>

Any other suggestions?

Thanks again.

Al Cooper


-----Original Message-----
From: Gerald Waugh [mailto:gwaugh (at mark) frontstreetnetworks.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 1:26 PM
To: coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
Subject: [coba-e:13749] Re: FTP Server Problems

Al Cooper wrote; Tuesday, August 19, 2008 11:58 AM

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[root@mail1 ~]# ftp localhost
ftp: connect: Connection refused
ftp>
 
If I attempt to telnet to port 21 from the server I get the following:
 
[root@mail1 /]# telnet localhost 21
Trying 127.0.0.1...
telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
 
I have compared the proftpd.conf file from another working server and
they are the same.
 
Any help on getting ftp working again will be greatly appreciated.
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Please, do not post HTML

Try starting from a shell session.
   /etc/init.d/xinetd restart
See what error develops.

Gerald