Servers: FTP Related Problems

Services such as these are enabled by editing the /etc/inetd.conf file. Then, you must also use the Runlevel editor to activate inetd in the desired runlevels.

You would be better off vsftp in place of ftp - see /etc/inetd.conf for details.

Now services started by xinetd (inetd) use the tcp wrappers, so to get things working you will have to do some editing to the files /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny. See man 5 hosts_access for details of the format.

Configuration file for vsftpd is /etc/vsftpd.conf

vsftpd - very secure FTP daemon. Install the package, enable inetd to run it, and work your way down /etc/vsftpd.conf switching the options on and off as required - it's dead easy.