Re: [Opensoekris-users] ftp-proxy not starting fix.

[Ben L. <be...@ti...>]

On Oct 7, 2003, at 1:00 PM, civ wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> Had fun tracking this one down..
> OpenBSD 3.3 -STABLE
> OpenSoekris-1.0.11
>
> Problem:
> ftp-proxy would not start once copied to the Soekris, no error 
> messages were displayed
>
> Solution:
> start syslogd with -p /dev/log
> ifconfig lo0 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
>
> Here's why:
> (on the Soekris)
> 'ktrace /usr/libexec/ftp-proxy' and 'kdump ktrace.out' told me more 
> than once that /dev/log did not exist. It was right. googled to find 
> what creates /dev/log, found that syslogd does. looked in /etc/rc and 
> saw that syslogd was started with -p /tmp/log. started 'syslogd -p 
> /dev/log' and /dev/log existed.. started /usr/libexec/ftp-proxy and I 
> see error messages now (bind: Can't assign requested address).. 
> progress, yeay. so I start ftp-proxy as it is meant to be started from 
> inetd.. inetd.conf has '127.0.0.1:8021 stream tcp       nowait  root   
>  /usr/libexec/ftp-proxy ftp-proxy'. still get the bind error above.. 
> check if lo0 is up, it is not, so 'ifconfig lo0 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 
> 0xff000000' brings it up and inetd starts without complaints.
>
> one further thing, once the pf rules were set, the proxy did not work 
> as advertised. I am doing NAT on the outside interface, so a quick 
> look at man ftp-proxy tells me to start it with the -n option. so the 
> inetd.conf line becomes:'127.0.0.1:8021 stream tcp       nowait  root  
>   /usr/libexec/ftp-proxy ftp-proxy -n' and all is well.
>
> enjoy,
> --Civ
> www.8thdaytech.com

In the next release (don't have a definite date yet, but "soon") we 
will have a ftp-proxy that does not require inetd. If you want to play 
with it, you can grab it from CVS.

// Ben
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