> BTW, has anyone seen ftpd fail on startup with the following (from memory): > > 12:44:16 [ftpd] Socket operation on non-socket > > Everytime I connect as a client or reboot, all I get is that message and > 'ps' never shows any 'ftpd' running. Logically, socket is a file. Where > does ftpd put that special socket file so that I can examine it? I guess > it must be something similar to X11 sockets that you can see in /tmp, right? > > BTW, it happens on Solaris.
This is just a guess, but if you try to run a daemon that expects to be spawned
from inetd at the command line it will probably fail with a message similar to
the above. Are you sure your ftpd program can be run from the command line ?
Don't you need at least a command line option to do so ?
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