FTP and Telnet have stopped working

[ch...@tourneyland.com]

Hey all,

I have a FreeBSD machine that is running fairly smoothly. Recently,
however, its telnet and FTP daemons seem to have stopped working. I can't
ftp or telnet in to it, even from the machine itself. I can ping it just
fine, and it can ping (and FTP) out just fine.

The only thing I can think of, is fairly recently (maybe a week ago) a
friend telnetted in to install ssh for me. The time that FTP and telnet
stopped working corresponds fairly roughly to my first reboot after he
installed ssh. That made me think that maybe he disabled ftpd and telnetd
in my inetd.conf file, which then kicked in when I rebooted. But they're
untouched in inetd.conf. So much for that. Another piece of data: ftpd and
telnetd don't show up on a ps -aux, though I'm not sure if they ever do.

Can anyone help?

Thanks,
Chris

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[Alfred Perlstein]

* ch...@tourneyland.com <ch...@tourneyland.com> [000222 21:01] wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I have a FreeBSD machine that is running fairly smoothly. Recently,
> however, its telnet and FTP daemons seem to have stopped working. I can't
> ftp or telnet in to it, even from the machine itself. I can ping it just
> fine, and it can ping (and FTP) out just fine.
>
> The only thing I can think of, is fairly recently (maybe a week ago) a
> friend telnetted in to install ssh for me. The time that FTP and telnet
> stopped working corresponds fairly roughly to my first reboot after he
> installed ssh. That made me think that maybe he disabled ftpd and telnetd
> in my inetd.conf file, which then kicked in when I rebooted. But they're
> untouched in inetd.conf. So much for that. Another piece of data: ftpd and
> telnetd don't show up on a ps -aux, though I'm not sure if they ever do.
>
> Can anyone help?

he may have disabled inetd entirely, look in /etc/rc.conf or
/etc/defaults/rc.conf for:
inetd_enable="NO"
or ring him on the phone and ask what the $#@$@#@$# he did. :)

the default install runs telnet/ftp from inetd so you shouldn't see
them in ps unless active connections are going on.

-Alfred

[Omachonu Ogali]

Also for future use...use killall -1 inetd to restart inetd thatn to waste
time and reboot the machine every time a change is made, this isn't
Windows ya know...

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