Weird FTP problem

[Jeff_Traigle]

This one makes no sense to me...

Yesterday afternoon, I disabled telnet and other unnecessary services in inetd.conf on an HP-UX 11.00 system. I found out this afternoon that FTP hasn't been working since then. (Connection times out.) Experimenting a little bit revealed that if I re-enabled telnet, FTP started working again. The other two systems we've patched in the past week or two and disabled telnet on do not exhibit this behavior. (Though different class machines, 11.00 is running on all of them and now have the same patches.) I even tried copying the inetd.conf from one of these other systems just in case there was some weird hidden character playing with us, but the result is the same.

Anyone ever seen this kind of thing before? Any ideas?

[RAC_1]

First error messsages, what are those??

You should have ftpd -l and inetd logging enabled. Do you have /etc/shells files??

Anil

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Although you didn't specifically state this, my best guess is that you commented out the /etc/services entry at the same time that you disabled ftpd in /etc/rc.config.d/inetd.conf. ftpd should have nothing to do with the ftp client.

[A. Clay Stephenson]

2nd off the wall guess: You actually get your services map from NIS/NIS+/LDAP and you disabled one of those at the same time.

[Jeff_Traigle]

Hmmm... actually, it seems the problem was that inetd needed to be restarted instead of simply rereading the configuration. Discovered this when I killed it and ran with -l option for logging. It worked right away then. Weird.

[D Block 2]

Jeff, glad to hear you are doing fine now.

one rule is to turn on (or toggle) logging:

# inetd -l
# tail -f /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log

on another terminal window, do your ftp'ing testing.. and verify what syslog shows.

my 2-cents,
Tom