Offhand, I believe FTP uses both ports 20 and 21 (by default). Something along the lines of 21 managing the incoming connections and actual data flowing over 20 or somesuch (I wouldn't quote that or anything). Do you have another machine internally so that you can rule out firewall/router issues?
Nick On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 18:12:24 -0600, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 04:20:45PM -0700, Nicolas Bailey wrote the following: > > Since proftpd is just a dependency of gproftpd, there's no reason to > > unmerge proftpd first. Just emerge gproftpd if you want to give it a > > try. > > > > Nick > > Either way, I'm still having problems. Different problems to be sure but > problems none the less. > > Despite telling it to use /var/log/secure for its log file, it continues to > try and look in /var/lib/log > > Also, whenever I put the port to 21, it goes offline, when I put it to 20 it > comes back online. For some reason it refuses to use port 21. No matter. I > set my router to forward external port 21 to internal port 20 and my ftp > client will not connect. It says connection is refused to > joseph-a-nagy-jr.us despite me telling it to connect to > ftp.joseph-a-nagy-jr.us > > Other then that gproftpd is a dream to work with. > > -- > Joseph A. Nagy Jr. > AIM: pres CTHULHU | ICQ: 18115568 | Yahoo: pagan_prince | Jabber: > DarkKnightRadick@(jabber.org|amessage.at) > Libertarian @ Large | PGP: 0xCF7EAA67 | < http://www.joseph-a-nagy-jr.us > | > < http://www.jan-jr-ent.biz > > < http://games.joseph-a-nagy-ur.us > > > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
