On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Ian Mortimer wrote: > > I just installed vsftpd and it seems to be working ok except that I'm > > seeing these warning messages in the syslog. Any idea what's causing > > these? I'm just logging on from the same host as the ftp server. > > > > Aug 1 19:31:51 tiger vsftpd: warning: can't get client address: > > Bad file descriptor > > It's because vsftpd doesn't call tcp_wrappers correctly. You can either > ignore it or turn off use of tcp_wrappers in /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf > (assuming RH 9). > > See bugzilla: #89765 #88768 #89766
I had found the error went away when I turned off tcp_wrappers support. I should check bugzilla more often!! I also found another problem with vsftpd. I wanted to allow anonymous users to upload files (I have a special short term need for this). While downloads worked perfectly I wasn't able to get uploads working no matter what I did. They were always denied due to permissions. I even tried 777 and changed ownerships but it was no go. I faithfully followed the instructions in Redhat's manual but it just did not work. However, I did get it to work by just changing LISTEN=NO in /etc/vsftpd.conf and then running vsftpd from xinetd with no other changes. vsftpd has a config for xinetd in it's documentation directory. I'm not sure why it wouldn't work when run as a standalone service but it works with xinetd??? -- Gerry "The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne" Chaucer -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
