[lug] FTP ERRORS??

[John Starkey]

> at first glance it sounds like a data channel isn't open (ftp communicates
> across two different ports).
>
> so no one can log in to the ftp server?
>
> can you ftp to localhost?
>
> do you have all of the commands like ls, etc in your chroot environment?

chrooting with proftpd uses binaries outside of the root.

I wasn't sure either, so I waited. With ProFTPd you have a PassivePorts
option where you can specify a range of ports that it will use for the
data channel. The default is to assume any >1024 is open season.

May be worth looking at.

John

> "Shannon Johnston"
> >
> > Hi all,
> > I've been getting a wierd FTP error. I've seen it mentioned all over the
> > internet, but I've found no solutions.
> > This is what's coming up:
> >
> > 421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection
> > Login failed.
> > No control connection for command: Transport endpoint is not connected
> >
> > I'm running RH 6.2 and ProFTPD 1.2.2rc2 in a chroot environment.
> > Can anybody shed light on this situation??