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On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 02:54:00PM +0100, Wanou wrote: > Hello evrybody, > > I can't use my proftpd server on my Debian Woody box. It's launched via inetd and >when I want to open a ftp session to my server, I have the message : > > 421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection > > So I read the syslog file, and I see : > > Nov 24 14:32:31 leon proftpd[11280]: leon - Failed binding to 0.0.0.0, port 21: >Address already in use > Nov 24 14:32:31 leon proftpd[11280]: leon - Check the ServerType directive to ensure >you are configured correctly. > > I don't know what it means. May be it's a conflict between two versions of proftpd >(I've installed it from the sources, and after, I've installed the debian-package >because I had already this error message). > > Thanks for your help. Something else is listening on port 21, and so proftpd can't bind to it. Use 'sudo netstat -pant' to see which process it is, then decide what to do about it. -rob
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