ftp giving url but i want the IP address

Greg Larkin glarkin at FreeBSD.org
Mon Apr 5 15:46:30 UTC 2010


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Walter wrote:
> I want to parse ftp error messages in auth.log and use the
> ip address in inserting a block into ipfw.  It works, except
> when ftpd spits out the host-specific url rather than the ip.
> Adding "-h" to the ftpd command in inet.conf didn't help.
> Can someone tell me how to do this, or point me to code
> (C) to convert it?
> 
> Thanks.  I'm off-list so please reply directly.
> 
> Walter
> _______________________________________________

Hi Walter,

Did you send a HUP signal to inetd so it rereads the config file?

	kill -HUP `cat /var/run/inetd.pid`

Hope that helps,
Greg
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