[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: Mandrake FTP

[Alton R. Pouncey, II]

On Sat, 2003-10-11 at 14:17, Chuck wrote:
> >
> > On a fresh install of Mandrake 9.1 on a 1.3gig Athlon with 512meg of
> > memory, I am having trouble getting FTP to work.  When I do "ftp localhost"
> > I get:
> >
> > [chuck at tbird chuck]$ ftp localhost
> > Connected to tbird.cfgraf.com.
> > 421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection
> > ftp>
> >
> > So I quit out of ftp, and try restarting proftpd:
> >
> > [root at tbird chuck]# service proftpd restart
> > Shutting down proftpd:                                          [FAILED]
> > Starting proftpd:                                               [  OK  ]
> > [root at tbird chuck]#
> >
> > No matter how many times I restart it, it always fails to stop.  It does
> > this on shut-down also.
> >
> > I have tried editing /etc/proftpd.conf many ways, but nothing makes any
> > difference. So I decided to ditch proftp for pure-ftp, ( pure-ftp worked
> > great for years on Red Hat).  I can uninstall proftp OK, but when I try and
> > install pure-ftp-1.0.14-5mdk.x86_64.rpm, it tells me it is already
> > installed. Of course, trying to start pure-ftpd yields nothing, and using
> > whereis likewise gets no response.  Pure-ftpd is not listed in
> > /var/logs/rpmpkgs.
> >
> > Help.  I have a friend who just did an install of mandrake who has the
> > exact same problem with proftp, but I cannot find any reference to this on
> > Google or the Mandrake site.  What can I do to get rid of proftp and get
> > pure-ftp to install?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Chuck Graf
> > www.cfgraf.com
> >
> > ------------------------------
> >
> 
> >
> > It's been a long time since I played with Mandrake, but did you make
> > sure you have a correct entry for proftpd in /etc/xinetd.d ?
> 
> There appears to be two ways to run proftp: as a stand-alone server, and as 
> proftp-xinetd.  I was trying to get the stand-alone server running.
> 
> The Directory /etc/xinetd.d has two proftpd files.  proftpd-xinetd looks like 
> this:
> 
> # default: off
> # description: proftpd server, xinetd version. \
> # Don't run the standalone version if you run \
> # this!
> 
> service ftp
> {
>         disable = yes
>         socket_type             = stream
>         wait                    = no
>         user                    = root
>         server                  = /usr/sbin/in.ftpd
>         log_on_success          += DURATION USERID
>         log_on_failure          += USERID
>         nice                    = 10
>         disable                 = yes
> }
> 
> And proftpd-xinetd.rpmsave looks like this:
> 
> # default: off
> # description: proftpd server, xinetd version. \
> # Don't run the standalone version if you run \
> # this!
> service ftp
> {
>         disable = no
>         socket_type             = stream
>         wait                    = no
>         user                    = root
>         server                  = /usr/sbin/in.ftpd
>         log_on_success          += DURATION USERID
>         log_on_failure          += USERID
>         nice                    = 10
> }
> 
> Note both warn not to run the proftpd-xinetd server with the stand-alone 
> daemon.  Trying to start proftpd.xinetd gets me this:
> 
> [root at tbird xinetd.d]# service proftpd-xinetd start
> proftpd-xinetd is a xinetd service and it is disabled
> to activate it do the following command:
> chkconfig proftpd-xinetd on
> [root at tbird xinetd.d]#[root at tbird xinetd.d]# chkconfig proftpd-xinetd on
> [root at tbird xinetd.d]# ftp localhost
> Connected to tbird.cfgraf.com.
> 421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection
> ftp> quit
> [root at tbird xinetd.d]#
> 
> 
> Changing the file to disable = no and restarting the service did not change 
> anything.  
> 
> Does anyone have proftp working?  Post your proftpd.conf file?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Chuck
> 
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I'm running Proftpd on RedHat as a standalone server just fine.  Is your
/etc/hosts.allow file setup to allow you to access proftpd from
localhost?  Here is my /etc/xinetd.d/ftp file:

# default: on
# description: The telnet server serves telnet sessions; it uses \
#       unencrypted username/password pairs for authentication.
service ftp
{
        disable = no
        port            = 21
        flags           = REUSE
        socket_type     = stream
        protocol        = tcp
        wait            = no
        user            = root
        server          = /usr/local/sbin/in.proftpd
        log_on_failure  += USERID
}

and here is the proftpd.conf file:

ServerName                      "Trainers-R-Us"
ServerType                      inetd
ServerIdent                     On "ftp.trainers-r-us.com"
DefaultServer                   on
 
# Port 21 is the standard FTP port.
Port                            21
# Umask 022 is a good standard umask to prevent new dirs and files
# from being group and world writable.
Umask                           022
 
# To prevent DoS attacks, set the maximum number of child processes
# to 30.  If you need to allow more than 30 concurrent connections
# at once, simply increase this value.  Note that this ONLY works
# in standalone mode, in inetd mode you should use an inetd server
# that allows you to limit maximum number of processes per service
# (such as xinetd)
MaxInstances                    30
 
# Set the user and group that the server normally runs at.
User                            nobody
Group                           nobody
 
# Normally, we want files to be overwriteable.
<Directory /*>
  AllowOverwrite                on
</Directory>
 
TransferLog                     /var/proftpd/xferlog
 
<Limit WRITE>
  DenyAll
</Limit>

-- 
Alton R. Pouncey, II
SCSA, SCNA, CCNA, CIW Professional