Originally posted by: credfemo

Hello.
I'm running Proftpd on AIX 6.1 (from AIX toolbox). Everything's running well, but... In order for Passive Mode to work, I need to have ftpd and proftpd lines uncommented in /etc/inetd.conf

If I run lssrc -t ftp, only proftpd shows up as running. I thought ftpd was not necessary for proftpd to work.

Oh, and if I manually start proftpd (not from inetd) then all is good. Meaning that ftpd is not necessary for passive mode to work.

Any ideas ?

Originally posted by: credfemo

Update:
The problem occurs only when I do stopsrc -t ftp, startsrc -t ftp. Then the ftpd line gets uncommented. But if I stop proftpd (stopsrc -t ftp), then comment out the ftpd line and the run refresh -s inetd, then proftpd works fine.

So I guess the solution is to stop proftpd with stopsrc -t ftp, then restart it with refresh-s inetd.

;-)

CF

Originally posted by: tony.evans

Not sure about your specific problem, but inetd and SRC shouldn't interact.

If a daemon is configured to be running in inetd, then it should be started from startsrc.

inetd will launch the daemon as required.

Some daemons run as a constant process which forks (i.e. under SRC control) and some are launched by a listening process (inetd). Sounds like you've got both of them and they're conflicting.

Originally posted by: tony.evans

grr, no edit mode.

"then it should NOT be started from startsrc."