ftp daemon fails

[Ronnel P. Maglasang]

tekkie140 wrote:
> no response in the freebsd-questions forum...maybe here?
>
> 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.
>   
daemonize the process... e.g.

/usr/libexec/ftpd -D -l -R -p ftpd-id