Can't get RH Linux FTP to work

[Crundy]

I have installed linux with apache, samba, postgres and loads of other such services, but I can't get wu-ftp to work.
I've installed both wu-ftp and anonftp, and entered this line in my inetd.conf:
ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.ftpd -L -l -i -a
(all one line), but when I attempt to connect, it says the FTP server is shut down.

Is there something about setting up a shell? If so what EXACTLY do I have to put? Any ideas about errors in my ftpaccess file?

 

[crhoton]

you need to modify the runlevels to start the ftp server at boot, you can use chkconfig -level 3 wuftpd on then chkconfig -level 5 wuftpd on if you are running RH. Otherwise you will need to add the start up scripts to rc3.d, and rc5.d to auto start the wuftpd. You may also call the startup script from the /etc/rc.d/init.d/./scriptname to manually start the daemon. Hope this is helpfull.

 

[bkonner]

Your ISP also needs to be told to allow FTP, just like WWW, and mail.

 

[king0770]

If you are running a recent version of RH 6.2 - 7.1, then you can edit the /etc/xinetd.d/wu-ftp file. And where it states
disable = yes, change the yes to a no. If the line does not exist, then type disable = no. Hope this helps!