From: Richard B. Gilbert on
hadi motamedi wrote:
> Sorry. You didn't see any chance for me to recover my ftp service?
>

You can install anything you like from the CD. It is considerably more
difficult to add software from the CD to a partial installation than to
do the full (SUNWCXall) installation.

To add software to a partial installation or to repair a damaged
installation, you must identify all of the software packages required to
provide what you need and then install them and all their dependencies.
You must then apply or reapply any patches that affect the software
you have just installed.


From: hadi motamedi on
> You can install anything you like from the CD.  It is considerably more
> difficult to add software from the CD to a partial installation than to
> do the full (SUNWCXall) installation.
Thank you for your reply. It seems that I need to re-install my OS
from the start.

From: Richard B. Gilbert on
hadi motamedi wrote:
>> You can install anything you like from the CD. It is considerably more
>> difficult to add software from the CD to a partial installation than to
>> do the full (SUNWCXall) installation.
> Thank you for your reply. It seems that I need to re-install my OS
> from the start.
>

Reinstalling MAY be the easiest way to do it. If you had some good
reason for doing a partial installation of Solaris you may need to
identify and install ONLY the FTP package together with the necessary
TCP/IP support modules. If this is your personal system and you have
sufficient disk space, reinstalling Solaris probably IS the easiest way.
If you are subject to corporate security policies you may be required
to install what you need and ONLY what you need.
From: hume.spamfilter on
hadi motamedi <motamedi24(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you for your reply. It seems that I need to re-install my OS
> from the start.

The default FTP server packages are SUNWftpr and SUNWftpu. They don't
have any dependancies that I can see.

If you want to reinstall your OS for practice, go for it. But it isn't
necessary. In fact, I think you'll find that SUNWftpu and SUNWftpr are
already there, unless you've removed them yourself. They're included
in all metaclusters in Solaris 8, I believe.

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From: hume.spamfilter on
hadi motamedi <motamedi24(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry. You didn't see any chance for me to recover my ftp service?

Look at the line:

# Ftp and telnet are standard Internet services.
#DISABLED by install_ncftpd.pl# ftp stream tcp6 nowait root /usr/sbin/in.ftpd in.ftpd

See the "#DISABLED by install_ncftpd.pl#"? Take that part out and HUP
inetd.

It looks like your attempt to install ncftpd did more damage than you
expected.

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