Thread: Enable/Disable ftp in solaris 10

Dear All,

How to Enable/Disable ftp in solaris 10

Regards
Kuldeep

Are you using in.ftpd or 3rd party FTP server? In most cases you need to use inetadm command.

Get status of ftp service

Code:

inetadm | grep ftp

Enable ftp

Code:

inetadm -e ftp

Disable ftp

Code:

inetadm -d ftp

More info

Code:

man inetadm
man svcadm

ftp that I am using is in.ftpd

I have tried

Code:
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inetadm | grep ftp
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Enable ftp
Code:
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inetadm -e ftp
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Disable ftp
Code:
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inetadm -d ftp
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After enabling or disabling using the inetadm command, The command inetadm | grep ftp is showing the proper output but when I try to connect to the machine from other machine it gives

> ftp: connect :Unknown error number

From the same machine using ftp 0.0.0.0
it has given
ftp: connect: Connection refused

I have used
"/usr/sbin/svcadm enable ftp"
"/usr/sbin/svcadm disable ftp"
To enable or disable ftp and it is working