I just want to know if a FTP server is installed on my server. It is a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.8 (Tikanga). I tried running the below command and got connection refused :
$ ftp localhost
ftp: connect: Connection refused
asked Apr 27, 2016 at 6:53
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2can you be more specific regarding your linux distribution ?– magorApr 27, 2016 at 6:58
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2Which distribution of linux?– sjsamApr 27, 2016 at 7:00
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its Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.8 (Tikanga)– chandra prakashApr 27, 2016 at 7:02
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3 Answers
If you know the package name you could do something like
dpkg -l vsftpd
to see what the package is about.
If you don't have any idea about package name
On debian or debian based systems you may do
dpkg -l | grep ftp # grab everthing that contain ftp
And with the results, you may do
dpkg -p result
On Redhat or Redhat based systems like Fedora , you may do
rpm -qa | grep ftp
and with the results
rpm -qi result # to know more about the package, whether it is the server itself or some suplimentary
On Systems like Fedora
yum list installed | grep ftp
Then do
yum info package_name
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Why use
--get-selections,-lis a lot simpler and just as good in this case. Apr 27, 2016 at 7:05 -
@Henrik : Updated and thanks for the info. I recently migrated from Redhat to Debian and am getting used to it– sjsamApr 27, 2016 at 7:20
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1and no need for grep with
dpkgeither -dpkg -l '*ftp*'works just fine (the single quotes are to avoid shell globbing in case there are files or sub-directories that match*ftp*in the current directory).– casApr 27, 2016 at 8:26
ftp is installed, otherwise you would get some "command not found error" what is not installed, or not configured is the FTP server (probably ftpd)
If You are a RHEL user you can use:
service vsftpd status
It will give the following response if the service is not running :
vsftpd: unrecognized service
and if the service is running in your server:
vsftpd (pid XXXX) is running...
You are getting ftp: connect: Connection refused because you have the FTP client installed in the system but FTP server is not installed. You can install the FTP server vsftpd and try the same it should work.
