Subject: WU-FTP on HP machines

From: viviani paz <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 11:29:51 +1000

Hi,

I've installed wu-ftp2.4 on an HP-UX 9.04, and I'm having problems to
ftp to this machine.

I followed all steps to compile, install, configure and start wu-ftp,
but when I try to ftp to my machine the server closes connections.

my_machine > ftp 0
Connected to 0.
220 my_machine FTP server (Version wu-2.4(4) Tue Oct 10 12:46:59 EST 1995) ready.
Name (0:ftptest): ftptest
password:
221 Server shutting down.  Goodbye.
421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection
ftp> by

I'm using HP secure passwords policy on that machine. Could it be a problem?

Thanks for your help,

Viviani

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From: Vincent Cojot <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 00:02:57 -0400 (EDT)

> 421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection

I am not a wu-ftpd expert at all but could it be that the "shutdown" line
in your ftpaccess file is pointing to a file that exists already? If you
have "shutdown /etc/shutmsg" in your ftpaccess file and file /etc/shutmsg
already exists, then wu-ftpd will exhibit the said behaviour. 

Vincent
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Vincent S. Cojot, Computer Engineering.
Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Comite Micro-Informatique.
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