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[chris.reeves@xxxxxxxxx (Chris Reeves)]

Message-ID: <3A2AAFF4.A1D466F4@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2000 20:41:24 +0000
From: Chris Reeves <chris.reeves@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [SLE] Running an FTP server but not in inetd.conf



Sean Rima wrote:
> 
> Originally to: Sean Rima
> 
> Hello Sean.
> 
> 02 Dec 00 11:47, I wrote to all:
> 
>  SR> I want to run a FTP server but not from inetd.conf. I commented the
>  SR> line and restarted inetd but I cannot bind the ftp server to port 21.
>  SR> Any suggestions.
> 
> As a followup to this. The ftp server I want to run is part of another
> application but evewn though I have no ftp server running it says that it
> cannot bind to port 21. What I am trying to do is to unlink port 21 so that
> the application can use it.

Have you made sure that nothing else is using port 21 by doing a
'netstat -a'?

Bye,
        Chris

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