How-to get anonymous FTP to use port 6021

[Matthew Seaman]

On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 02:56:34PM -0500, JJB wrote:
> How can I tell the inetd anonymous ftp server to listen on an
> different port other that 21.
> I tried adding port 6021 in the /etc/services file but that did not
> work.

Don't change the default ftp port number in /etc/services -- instead
add your own line, eg:

    mycustomftp    6021/tcp

Then add a line lie so into /etc/inetd.conf:

    mycustomftp    stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/libexec/ftpd       ftpd -l

and restart inetd:

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

Note that this may well result in port 6020 being used for the FTP
data channel -- you'll need to make sure your firewall rules permit
that.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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