Thanks guys, I did switch to vsftpd, and in the end it worked, but the first thing that happened on testing was that any connection was outright refused.
Turns out the problem was that in inetd.conf ftp was commented as such: #<disabled>#ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/vsftpd I'm not sure how long that had been in there, possibly since original installation, but at any rate, the command update-inetd that is supposedly used by stuff like dselect, as in: update-inetd --enable ftp Doesn't take that kind of comment away as apparently a comment in that file is supposed to be honored as a user edit. Actually the Head of that file says you're not supposed to edit it unless you're really sure what you're doing, better just use update-inetd (!!). Well, great! .. looks like the whole design is meant to keep you from using a ftp demon. I ended up taking the comment away directly. Now it finally works (sigh). I know that I didn't put the fricking comment in there, must've been some installer. I find it really annoying that ftp can be just quietly disabled like that without any failure message on the part of the install scripts. After all the script DID obviously put vsftpd into that line somehow, just only without actually activating the bloody thing. Probably wu-ftp itself would've been working fine as well, I guess. Lukas __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
