trouble setting up vsftpd on FC3 (tcp_wrappers?)
Chuckles
phlebas at earthlink.net
Fri Jan 14 15:46:33 UTC 2005
I have been away from Linux for quite a while and have started messing
with it again in the last few days (was my primary OS for a while back
in the 2.0-2.2 kernel days). I had a FC1 install on an old laptop
(gateway solo PII 366 w/256MB) that I had been toying with some months
back.
Last weekend I fired it up, updated it via yum, allowed ftp in
firewall, added "in.ftpd: <client ip>" to /etc/hosts.allow, started
vsftpd up and viola it worked like a charm. I backed up some files to
another box via ftp then shut it down and proceeded to do a fresh
install of FC3.
FC3 is now on and fully updated but getting vsftpd working again to
move those files back has become a major headache for me (I'm very rusty
Linux wise... not that I was every anything but a luser). I'm
wondering if anyone with a working 'standalone mode' vsftpd with
tcp_wrappers enabled would post a short list of the steps to get it
working (at this point I can't even get a connection to it from
localhost without turning off tcp_wrappers in vsftpd.conf). Even with
"ALL: LOCAL" in /etc/hosts.allow localhost can't connect. Error: "421
service not available."
I added the ftp firewall entry, I have tried every variation I can
think of of /etc/hosts.allow entries for ftp (though it should work for
localhost at least with "ALL: LOCAL" shouldn't it?), started vsftpd, and
nada. Since it works with tcp_wrappers disabled I know I'm doing
something wrong/stupid re them. I wish I still had FC1 around so I
could refer to its setup for vsftpd because it worked like a charm. The
one thing I think I remember that seems to be different is that there is
no /etc/xinetd.d/vsftpd file present on FC3 (there is a sample in the
docs for vsftpd). I wonder if that is required even when vsftpd is run
standalone? Note: I copied the sample xinetd config for vsftpd in the
vsftpd docs dir to /etc/xinetd.d/vsftpd leaving 'disabled=' set to 'yes'
and still no go.
I'm feeling very frustrated and stupid here...
--
Chuckles <phlebas at earthlink.net>
Life Sucks! Then You DIE!!!
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