[vox-tech] Setting up an ftp server

[Jonathan Stickel]

I would suggest SSH instead.  By following the instructions in the RH 
documentation, I have used it succesfully in both RH8 and RH9.  I use 
GFTP to transfer files over SSH.

Jonathan


Wojciech Komornicki wrote:
> I am running RedHat Linux 9.0 on a laptop.  I would like to enable ftp
> access to the laptop.  When I try to ftp to the Linux box I get  
>    421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection
> and the ftp session is closed.  I am not looking to install anonymous ftp.
> 
> I run Digital UNIX on my desktop workstation and there I have a file
>      inetd.conf
> in which is recorded how to start up the ftp daemon.  Is there such a
> configuration file.  The man page for /etc/services mentions inetd.conf
> but the man page for inetd.conf is not installed on my machine and
> neither is the file.
> 
> Thanks
> --
> Wojciech Komornicki
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