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[BIS]

Hallo,

On an old RH6.something box, I am trying to ftp to another machine. I keep getting this however:

200 PORT command successful.
550 Requested action not taken

Any ideas?

 

[Morsing]

Looks like a filepermission problem. Does it just log you off again??

Cheers Henrik Morsing
Certified AIX 4.3 Systems Administration
& p690 Technical Support

 

[BIS]

Hmm no...

[root@ml veritas]# ftp 10.2.0.6
Connected to 10.2.0.6.
220 TheBox FTP server (TheBox 2.1.2) ready.
Name (10.2.0.6:root): admin
331 Password required for admin.
Password:
230 User admin logged in.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
ftp> bin
200 Type set to I.
ftp> put be_agnt_234039.tar
local: be_agnt_234039.tar remote: be_agnt_234039.tar
200 PORT command successful.
550 Requested action not taken
ftp>

just sits there.

file pernission:
-rwxrwxr-x

I am lost....

 

[ChrisCW]

Any firewall between you and the server??

Try ftp localhost on server itself...

 

[BIS]

Don't think so.
/etc/rc.d/init.d/ipchains stop

[root@ml /root]# ipchains --list
Chain input (policy ACCEPT):
Chain forward (policy ACCEPT):
Chain output (policy ACCEPT):

Still the same. Any other ideas?

 

[ChrisCW]

What are the permissions of the "admin" home directory, and what is "admin"s logon shell (look at /etc/passwd). I agree with morsing - it still looks like a permission issue...

 

[BIS]

Now I am getting a bit confused. Admin is an account on the other box (SCO if that matters).

admin:x:105:1:admin:/home/admin:/usr/bin/sh

drwxr-xr-x 3 admin

I can successfully ftp to and from the SCO box with other machines, just not this one.

 

[Morsing]

Are you sure you can read til file you're trying to put??

Cheers Henrik Morsing
Certified AIX 4.3 Systems Administration
& p690 Technical Support

 

[BIS]

I think so... How can I be sure?
I can cat it, more it, cp, rm, mv it to my hearts desire. Its a tar file, I can tar xvf it. I just cannot ftp the bloody bugger...

 

[ChrisCW]

What about trying another ftp program (just to prove a point) such as ncftpput - I believe this is on the full install of Redhat 6.x. It could be an ftp client issue??

 

[BIS]

Hmmm, ncftp comes up with:


ncftp /home/admin > put be_agnt_234039.tar
put be_agnt_234039.tar: server said: Requested action not taken
ncftp /home/admin >

and then just sits there...

I am puzzled. Its probably something extremely simple, but this has got me stumped.

 

[Morsing]

Anything in the SCO log??
What if you change directory before put'ing??

Cheers Henrik Morsing
Certified AIX 4.3 Systems Administration
& p690 Technical Support

 

[BIS]

Nah - I am quite sure its not on the SCO box, after all, I can ftp to that one from Solaris, Win2K and other linux boxes. Its just from this one I am having trouble. Perhaps there is something in xinetd - no inetd I guess, I don't know. I will dig around...

 

[BIS]

I am logging into this over ssh if that has anyting to do with it? Just a thought...

 

[Morsing]

put be_agnt_234039.tar: server said: Requested action not taken

I'm pretty sure it is.

I'm not saying it's SCO's fault, just that it's reacting to something and that might be in a log.

Cheers Henrik Morsing
Certified AIX 4.3 Systems Administration
& p690 Technical Support

 

[BIS]

Henrik,
I don't want to start a long silly discussion here, but it that case why would this be the only box from where I can't ftp? It seems to me that as I can ftp to the SCO box from all but this red hat, that would indicate that the root cause lies on the red hat.
But then again, who am I - just a novice. I will see if I can dig around the log files and let you know.

 

[Morsing]

Ok, back to the basics:

Can you do 'get', 'ls' and other things??
Try put'ing something that's not tar'ed. Works??
Can you 'get' the file from the Linux to the SCO??

Cheers Henrik Morsing
Certified AIX 4.3 Systems Administration
& p690 Technical Support

 

[BIS]

Thats the weird part - yes I can ls, yes I can get - but I can't put a darn thing :-( - doesn't seem to matter what I try, always the same - 550 Requested action not taken.

 

[Morsing]

What if it's not a tar file??

Cheers Henrik Morsing
Certified AIX 4.3 Systems Administration
& p690 Technical Support

 

[BIS]

Doesn't seem to matter - any file I try to 'put' I get the same error. Its as if there is a setting somewhere not allowing outgoing ftp... but not in the firewall. Is there somewhere you configure the ftp daemon?