[plug] Trouble with ftpd

[John Summerfield]

On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, David Buddrige wrote:

> Hi guys,
> 
> am running a slakware 3.1 system with squid and socks5 as a firewall / proxy
> server for my company... for some reason, ftp seems to have stopped working.
> I noticed that while there is a httpd process running, I cannot see anything
> like ftpd... 

Usually run from inetd.

See what happens when you do this:
[summer at emu indexes]$ telnet localhost
ftp
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 emu FTP server (Version wu-2.4.2-academ[BETA-17](1) Tue Jun 9 10:43:14
EDT 1998) ready.



> 
> Also, I cannot find a program called "ftpd" on the entire hard-drive - I
> assume since such a command exists it should be located somewhere... after a
> updatedb, locate still failed to find any program called ftpd... does anyone
> have any ideas on what might have happed here?

Here's mine:


[summer at emu indexes]$ locate ftpd | grep bin | grep -v live
/usr/sbin/in.ftpd


True I'm running RedHat, but those commands should find it on your system.
If it's not there, i suggest you reinstall it.
> 
> regards
> 
> David Buddrige
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Cheers
John Summerfield
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