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From: djc@Kesa.COM (Don Christensen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: ftp under ISC 2.2 TCP/IP
Keywords: ftp
Message-ID: <1991Feb22.002543.19414@Kesa.COM>
Date: 22 Feb 91 00:25:43 GMT
References: <359@abhg.UUCP>
Organization: Kesa Corporation
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misko@abhg.UUCP (William Miskovetz) writes:

>I'm running Interactive's TCP/IP version 1.2 under ISC's 2.2 OS.
>I am having trouble with ftp.  I'm just trying something simple 
>like ftp localhost.  I get logged in ok, but when I try a command 
>like ls I get:

>ftp> ls
>200 PORT command successful.
>421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection

We had the exact same problem.  We eventually tracked it down to the
fact that we had more than three entries in the /etc/shells file.
Don't ask me why that would cause the problem, but once we changed it,
ftp then worked.  If you find that this does not fix the problem for
you, let me know.

>Any suggestions or hints greatly appreciated.  Thanks.

No problem.

>Bill Miskovetz
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Don Christensen
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