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After installing RH7.0, ftp worked fine.  After messing with tripwire,
and ipchains ftp no longer allows login.
I have removed ipchain (via the flush) and still no ftp access.  That is
everytime I try to ftp to this system I get a FTP error (from windows),
If I try to ftp from localhost to he localhost I get "ftp: connect:
Connection refused"

I do not see tfpd when I use "df -ef | grep ftp

Anyone know what to look for or how to fix?

Thanks,

   Dan
        (Not a Linux guru - but I am a newbee)

Additional information:
  RH 7.0 uses xinetd.conf which points to, and reads in files from
directory xinetd.d.  The only reference I can find concerning FTP is
'wu-ftp' which appears to be a more secure version of FTP (not entirely
sure).

Here is wu-ftp entry from /etc/xinetd.d/wu-ftpd:

wu-ftpd:
# default: on
# description: The wu-ftpd FTP server serves FTP connections. It uses \
#       normal, unencrypted usernames and passwords for authentication.
service ftp
{
        socket_type             = stream
        wait                    = no
        user                    = root
        server                  = /usr/sbin/in.ftpd
        server_args             = -l -a
        log_on_success          += DURATION USERID
        log_on_failure          += USERID
        nice                    = 10

Quote:}

Here is my manual attempt to start FTP out of '/usr/sbin/':
    ./ftprestart
    ftprestart: /var/ftp/etc/shutmsg does not exist.
    ftprestart: /etc/shutmsg does not exist.
I'm wonder what these two missing files should look like.

Thanks in advance for any help!
Dan