Date:  Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:12:40 -0500
From:  "Gerald Waugh" <gwaugh (at mark) frontstreetnetworks.com>
Subject:  [coba-e:13752] Re: FTP Server Problems
To:  <coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org>
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Al Cooper wrote Tuesday, August 19, 2008 2:38 PM
> 
> 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?
> 

What does 
  netstat -tupan | grep :21 
read.
Should be something like;
[root@cbq ~]# netstat -tupan | grep :21
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:21                  0.0.0.0:*
LISTEN      16516/xinetd

Maybe you have a firewall blocking, although I believe you tried.
ftp and telnet at localhost.

Gerald