ftp daemon fails

[Mel]

On Tuesday 11 September 2007 18:51:44 tekkie140 wrote:
> hi - all of a sudden (it used to work) i can't start the ftpd daemon.
>
> # /usr/libexec/ftpd -l -R -p ftpd-id
> Sept 10 09:02:22 myhostname ftpd[1234]: getpeername (/usr/libexec/ftpd):
> Socket operation on non-socket
> #
>
> anyone know where i should look?  /etc/hosts looks okay.

getpeername means it doesn't have anything to connect with. It doesn't have 
anything to connect with, because you didn't specify -D option and as such it 
expects a socket from inetd.

-- 
Mel