ftpd on xinetd

[Michael Klinosky]

Mikkel:
> What exactly is the error message?

PASS XXXX
530 Login authentication failed
Disconnecting from site 10.0.0.50

 > Is the login failing, or are you
> being blocked before it gets that far?

It can't be a case of blockage - ftpd responds, and asks me to log in. 
On the client, I use gftp.

> You may want to check that
> xinetd is running and that pure-ftp is enabled. Just because there
> is a file in /etc/xinet.d for it does not mean it is enabled.
>         disable = yes

I'm sure that they're running (used the 'service ... ' commands). And, 
I've been thru the config files.