ben,
Thanx for that..it all seems to be working now..
-Alan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Russo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 9:38 PM
Subject: Re: (no subject)
> Alan Giltinan wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I installed redhat 8(psyche) recently and did so with the ftp
> > option enabled. I am not sure what daemon it is. I am new to this
> > environment.
> > I can ftp out of the machine no problem but i cant ftp into the
machine.
> > I have checked the security permissioins and the firewall, which was
> > also setup at installation time, is in the default position. As a
> > result, no incoming traffic can get through.
> > I have tried to customise by clicking that option and then enabling
> > the ftp option. However when i click ok to this and go back into the
> > security level windows nothing changed.
> > So it seems i can not enable the ftp, or any incoming, traffic for
> > that mater.
> > I am logged in as root.
> > Did i do something wrong on installation, i cant see where, or is
> > there something i have to click to allow root to change the security
> > level on the firewall?
>
> Make sure you have run up2date --register
> and that when you run "up2date -l" that you either get a message
> saying "all packages are already up2date" or a list of available
> packages.
>
> Then log in to your machine as "root"
>
> Get a command prompt
>
> Type "chkconfig --list | grep -i ftp"
> If you don't see anything, then run "up2date -i vsftpd" and try the
> chkconfig --list again.
>
> Run "chkconfig vsftpd on"
>
> Run "service iptables stop"
>
>
> Run "up2date -u redhat-config-securitylevel"
> Run "redhat-config-securitylevel"
> and select Security Level Medium,
> Then select custom, and make sure that under the checked boxes only
> the services (e.g. "ssh" and "ftp") are checked.
>
> click "OK"
>
> Try the FTP connection to your machine from a remote box, and make
sure
> you use
> passive FTP.
>
> If it still doesn't work, reply back with the output of the commands
from
> "iptables-save"
> "rpm -qa | grep -i ftp"
> "rpm --verify vsftpd"
> "netstat -nr"
> "ifconfig -a"
> "chkconfig --list | grep ftp"
> "netstat -nap | grep LISTEN"
>
> -Ben.
>
>
>
>
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