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Simon Child <simon@child.demon.co.uk>  wrote ....
> Good suggestion. If I su - ftp then cd to pub/incoming I can create 
> a file with vi, so that suggests that permissions are OK?

yup - perms must be ok (famous last words :-) ).                            

Had not tried to strace an inet daemon before - fun eh? 

Obviously some things are different on your system from mine, 
as tracing did not work at all with the format you had in inetd.conf.
I was on the verge of giving up on this but I found that eliminating
the tcpd (takes no part after initial check) and putting the strace in
a script allowed a trace to happen ....eg 

ls -ald /usr/local/bin/ftpdtrace    
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root           83 Aug  7 00:24 /usr/local/bin/ftpdtrace

cat  /usr/local/bin/ftpdtrace    
#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/strace -o/tmp/dbin  /usr/sbin/wu.ftpd  -l -a    

I dont have in.ftpd only wu.ftpd (no idea what difference is)
(Worth just checking that this runs manually ie /usr/local/bin/ftpdtrace ,
- trace should exist and show a failure due to not a socket.)                 

/etc/inetd/conf has a line now like .....
ftp     stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/local/bin/ftpdtrace   
 
This format seemed to work ie ran as normal and got a trace out, 
though may not work on yours ?.
 
Hope this works on yours AND that something useful comes of it :-)
                            
Cheers,
Steve Houseman

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currently  steve.houseman at virgin net