Very Computer

My problem:

Connected to localhost.
421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection
ftp>
ftp>quit

I am getting exactly the same problem with Telnet.

I must be missing something very simple, but here is what I
have tried and failed at doing...

/var/log/secure
--
Jun 10 09:29:08 brutus in.ftpd[1495]: refused connect from 127.0.0.1
--

The file permissions:
/usr/sbin/in.ftpd -rwxr-xr-x
/usr/sbin/in.telnetd -rwxr-xr-x
/usr/sbin/tcpd*  -rwxr-xr-x
/etc/inetd.conf   -rw-r--r--
/etc/host*         -rwxr-xr-x
/etc/pam.d/*     -rw-r--r--

Contents of files:
/etc/inetd.conf
--
ftp     stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.ftpd -l -a
telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.telnetd
--

/etc/hosts.allow
--
swat: 127.0.0.1 192.168.0
swat: 192.168.0.1
swat: 192.168.0.2
192.168.0.1
192.168.0.2
127.0.0.1
--

/etc/hosts.deny
--
ALL: ALL
--

/etc/hosts
--
127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain
192.168.0.1 brutus
192.168.0.2 max
--

I am completely lost, am I looking in the correct places?  Obviously not..
what have I overlooked.  Surely there must be a rule, SOMEWHERE that is
telling ftp (or tcpd) not to accept any connections... but, I can't find it!
argh!!

Please help....

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           Andrew Wedding
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  Central Queensland University
http://users.bigpond.com/awedding
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Add the following line to /etc/hosts.allow:

in.ftpd,in.telnetd: 127.0.0.1,localhost

Then do a 'man 5 hosts_access' and 'man 5 hosts_options' to
understand why. Use 'tcpdchk' to check your tcpd configuration
for errors, and 'tcpdmatch' to check whether a specific host
and/or user would be granted or denied access using your current
configuration. Also read the man pages for tcpdchk and tcpdmatch.

Get used to read man pages in general. ;-)

HTH,
Thomas
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Thanks for that it works a charm.. except that it now doesn't accept my
password for whichever user that I enter.  I had checked the man pages and
just couldn't understand why it wasn't working.

I also had already done tcpchk and realised that there was a problem with a
couple of lines that was missing the :  I now understand it all a little bit
better.

Thanks again,
Andrew
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Kind Regards,
*************************************
           Andrew Wedding
       Final year BIT student
  Central Queensland University
http://users.bigpond.com/awedding
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Quote:> Add the following line to /etc/hosts.allow:

> in.ftpd,in.telnetd: 127.0.0.1,localhost

> Then do a 'man 5 hosts_access' and 'man 5 hosts_options' to
> understand why. Use 'tcpdchk' to check your tcpd configuration
> for errors, and 'tcpdmatch' to check whether a specific host
> and/or user would be granted or denied access using your current
> configuration. Also read the man pages for tcpdchk and tcpdmatch.

> Get used to read man pages in general. ;-)

> HTH,
> Thomas