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Old 22nd August 2008
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Originally Posted by BSDfan666 View Post
If you're enabling ftpd via inetd, why are you enabling it in rc.conf?

Either enable it in rc.conf or inetd.conf, not both.
Actually, I dug a little deeper and found that ftpd_enable isn't supported by rc.conf in FreeBSD 5.1. Seen here: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?q...SE&format=html

or by grepping through /etc/default/rc.conf for "ftpd" in my install.

So I don't think that line in the rc.conf meant anything and was ignored, but that still doesn't explain why inetd wasn't listening for FTP requests. Besides if inetd_enable and ftpd_enable were both supported and both worked, I would have assumed the ftpd_enable line would have caused a error to be logged somewhere mentioning a service already listening on port 21. I never found any such error messages.
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