Do I have FTP running on my server 1

[JCrou82]

I'm pretty new to Linux. I have RH 7.0 installed on my machine. I also have sendmail (which I didn't install) and apache (which i didn't install but know how to work with) and php and postgresql (also didn't install). I need to update the websites that are running on apache and as of now what i do is I code on a windows machine, save it to a floppy and then go to the server (which is right next to me) mount the floppy and load the files. I want to be able to FTP to the server so that I don't have to keep doing this idiotic process.

How do I know if FTP capabilities were installed on here or not? (I attempted to use WSFTP from the windows machine, but I couldn't connect)

Also I attempted to install Pure-FTPd but I don't know wether its running and if its not, how do I make it run? henceforth the previous question.

Any help would be appreciated.

THank You

 

[ecasadella]

Firstly verify if there's any running

# netstat -na | grep LISTEN

if it shows this line:

tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:21 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
then it's running

if not, try this in order to check whether or not a ftp package is installed

# rpm -qa | grep ftp

if so, look for the initialization file at /etc/xinet.d/<ftp file>, edit it, there must be a variable like &quot;disable&quot; give it the value &quot;no&quot;.
The you must to restart the inet service

# /usr/sbin/xinetd restart

If is not installed, look in the Installation CD for the ftp<version>.rpm, do this executing:

# rpm -iv <ftp<version>.rpm>

EDC

 

[JCrou82]

thank you for the post. This is what I got...
when i typed in netstat -na | grep LISTEN the output was:

tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:6000 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:80 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:443 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:515 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:587 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:25 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:110 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:5432 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:23 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:113 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:1024 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:111 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN

but none with 21 in it. Then when i type in the command rpm -qa | grep ftp, I got this output:

ftp-0.17-6
ncftp3.0.1-7
gftp-2.0.7b-2

and The installation disks I have, unfortunately Do not have any rpms for FTP. Where do I go from here?

 

[JCrou82]

Also I forgot to mention, there was no such file in the directory or anywhere else for that matter. (/etc/xinet.d/) this is probably due to the fact that I most likely don't have FTP running or installed properly. Please help.

Thank you

 

[fluid11]

The 3 packages that you have installed are FTP clients. Most likely, you don't have FTP running, judging by the output of the netstat command, but thats not 100% of course. Someone could have compiled an FTP server from source (wouldn't show up in the rpm -qa output) and changed the default port of 21 to something else. Are you the only admin on the box?

I would recommend installing ProFTPd -->

http://www.proftpd.org.

I would download the source file (*.tar.gz) from their website. Basic instructions would look something like this...

<change to the directory where the proftpd-x.x.x.tar.gz file is located>
tar zxvf proftpd-x.x.x.tar.gz -C /usr/local/src
cd /usr/local/src/proftpd-x.x.x
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/proftpd
make
make install

Next, you need to modify the /usr/local/proftpd/etc/proftpd.conf file. After you are done configuring the server, you can start the ProFTPd daemon by running &quot;/usr/local/proftpd/sbin/proftpd&quot;.

Post back if you have any problems or questions, or you can start a new thread if you decide to go with ProFTPd.


ChrisP

 

[JCrou82]

I will try proFTP. But before I do, how do I uninstall pure-FTP. I allegedly installed pure-ftp, but from your post and from the look of things, it didn't install. I want to get rid of it before I install a different program so that I if any issues arise, I could just target proFTP as the culprit instead of guessing wether my bad installation of pure-FTP was causing the problem.

Also is there a forum for ProFTP or should I just post in here?

Thanks to all....

 

[JCrou82]

As to the only admin, yes, I am the only admin. I took over the postion of the previous admin who has left the company and as far as I recall, he had not installed any FTP services on here besides the default FTP clients that you are talking about.

Thank You