Greetings,

I am currently working in an environment where we have inetd, tcpwrappers, and ftpd. Currently we have ftpd running through tcpwrappers, but it doesn't even need to be running for the outside world to see. therefore, we want to restrict ftpd so that it only will listen to localhost (some stupid application requires ftp to itself...) which leads me to my 2 questions:

1) with tcpwrappers is it possible to give ALL: but still have it so that it does not give a certain protocol (basically an all except ftpd)

2) Is it possible to bind ftpd so that it only listens to localhost without having to install xinetd

Please note that this is a production environment running HPUX/Tru64 at a company who does not like open source (please don't get me started on that, i am just as grumpy about it as some of you will be just reading it)