Date:  Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:43:10 +0000
From:  "Colin Jack" <colin (at mark) mainline.co.uk>
Subject:  [coba-e:15362] Re: Re  Broken FTP
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No - this was working absolutely fine until the latest yum update updated it! Unless the update has installed a new /etc/proftpd.conf file with something funny in it ... hmmm I wonder. I will take a look.

There is something in the update that has broken it (on all our servers).

Regards

Colin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg O'Lone [mailto:bluequartzlist (at mark) stretchedout.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 1:18 PM
> To: coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
> Subject: [coba-e:15361] Re: Re Broken FTP
> 
> Colin,
> 
> Could this be a Passive FTP problem? we found (because of the firewall
> we are using) that we had to specify the PASV port range in the /etc/
> proftpd.conf file because we didn't want to allow external connections
> on everything from 49152 to 65535... and in our infinite wisdom, the
> first time we did this, the firewall got configured first. Suddenly
> file transfers were being rejected all over the place... but only
> about 2/3 of them. It took a while to figure out what happened because
> the connection problems were escalated and the port change was put on
> hold (so much for the operation plan...). Anyway once we took a step
> back and remembered... oh yeah...
> 
> Greg
> 
> On Mar 19, 2009, at 5:31 am, Colin Jack wrote:
>