ftp connection refused on Itanium RH 2.1

I'm running "Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation release 2.1AW (Derry)"
on a HP zx6000 Itanium workstation. I have telnetd working via
xinetd, but anytime I try to ftp to the workstation, even from itself,
I get "connection refused". There are no ftpaccess or ftpdeny files.
Any suggestions what to look for?

"kenneth kahn" <kenkahn@optonline.net> wrote in message
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> I'm running "Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation release 2.1AW (Derry)"
> on a HP zx6000 Itanium workstation. I have telnetd working via
> xinetd, but anytime I try to ftp to the workstation, even from itself,
> I get "connection refused". There are no ftpaccess or ftpdeny files.
> Any suggestions what to look for?


It could be a lot of things, but the first things I would try are to make
sure ftpd is running. I'm pretty sure redhat is using "vs-ftpd" now and it
works in daemon mode, try:

ps -ef | grep ftpd

See if processes are running. If you selected to use a firewall during the
install, it may be blocking the port. Try:

iptables -L

To see if you have any firewall rulesets running. If you do, you can try:

iptables -F

to flush them. Or you can check /var/log/messages to see if you ftpd *is*
trying to run, and spewing out an error, and work from there.

Eric