vsftpd setup for redhat 9

[DavLucMac]

alright, so I gave up on using smb becuase it's totally unsecure for remote file manipulation, uploads and downloads. I've moved on to ftp, and the hope of sftp shortly thereafter.

server's at my friends house... and I honestly can't remember if we installed vsftpd or not. /etc/vsftpd/vsftp.conf seems to be there, but it doesn't look like a server is up and running. ftp, and nobody users are there... I'm just too new to this to check this out very well.

I cannot ftp into the server even from the localhost. I get a "connection refused". Here's the vsftp.conf file:


anonymous_enable=YES
local_enable=YES
write_enable=YES
local_umask=022
dirmessage_enable=YES
xferlog_enable=YES
connect_from_port_20=YES
xferlog_std_format=YES
ftpd_banner=Welcome to your mom's FTP service.
pam_service_name=vsftpd
userlist_enable=YES
#enable for standalone mode
listen=YES
tcp_wrappers=YES


xinet.conf contains the following:


defaults
{
instances = 60
log_type = SYSLOG authpriv
log_on_success = HOST PID
log_on_failure = HOST
cps = 25 30
}

includedir /etc/xinetd.d


I'm a struggling newb willing to learn. If you all have any suggestions, let me know. Thanks a ton.

Dav

 

[drag]

don't realy know what vsftpd is exept that it is obvious a ftp server.

However is the proccess for it running?

ps -aux
or
ps -aux |less
or maybe
ps -aux | grep ftp

If it isn't go look in the /etc/init.d and see if there is a "init" script to start the proccess.

If it is named vsftpd then you'd run

/etc/init.d/vsftpd start

check out Redhat's Docs for more information about init scripts and to automate services starting at boot up