topic ftp in Operating System - HP-UX

ftp

himacs — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 16:09:54 GMT

Hi admins,

I have commented the ftp line in /etc/inetd.conf and run inetd -C.But still ftp works..i want ftp to be disabled from the server

regards,
Pavan

Re: ftp

Patrick Wallek — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 16:26:50 GMT

>>But still ftp works

FTP works how? Are you trying to FTP **TO** this server? Or are you trying to FTP **FROM** this server?

Depending on what **EXACTLY** you are doing will determine additional responses.

Re: ftp

Patrick Wallek — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 16:48:01 GMT

I should add that commenting out the FTP line in /etc/inetd.conf and running 'inetd -c' will only effect **incoming** FTP connections.

It will **NOT** effect outgoing FTP from this server.

Re: ftp

Taifur — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 05:15:46 GMT

Hi himacs

You can stop the ftp service by
#/sbin/init.d/ftpd stop

Rgds//
Taifur

Re: ftp

Johnson Punniyalingam — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 08:49:01 GMT

>>and run inetd -C.But still ftp works<<

I suspect your command wrong "C" should be "c"

# inetd -c --> to Initialize,

please verify as below

# ftp localhost

Thanks,
Johnson

Re: ftp

vijay alur — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 12:41:41 GMT

Hi

stop the ftp service thru

#/sbin/init.d/ftpd stop

and comment out the ftp service from /etc/services by blocking the default port.

i think so it should work.

regds

Re: ftp

Steven Schweda — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 13:48:58 GMT

> and comment out the ftp service from
> /etc/services [...]

This is seldom a good idea, and is unlikely
to have the desired effect.

Re: ftp

Patrick Wallek — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 15:37:57 GMT

>>stop the ftp service thru
>>#/sbin/init.d/ftpd stop

Impossible!!!!! There is no such thing as 'ftpd' in /sbin/init.d. FTP is controlled via inetd.

The only exception **might** be if you are running an ftpd daemon other than the standard HP-UX ftp daemon.

Steven is quite right about /etc/services. Commenting something out there really doesn't do much good as /etc/services is basically a documentation file.

Re: ftp

Md. Farhan A Azam — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 20:56:47 GMT

Hi you can comment in..

/etc/services

hope it will work.

Re: ftp

Steven Schweda — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 23:24:04 GMT

Outside of this forum, I have never seen so
many people so eager to damage
"/etc/services".

Does anyone know why this nonsense is so
popular?

Re: ftp

Patrick Wallek — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 01:16:27 GMT

>>Does anyone know why this nonsense is so
>>popular?

I think there is a big misunderstanding of the function of /etc/services.

While it is possible that commenting entries in /etc/services will **break** a service it is definitely not necessarily the correct way to **disable** a service.