Hi all, This being my first post, I'd like to say Hello to everyone, your HowTo Guides and Forum posts have been very valuable to me in learning setting up a Linux VPS I have rented ready for a business venture me and my wife intend to take. After messing about with pre-setup LAMP installations (ie. XAMPP), I decided to try at configuring and setting up the server myself ( I do have a lot of knowledge with setting things up and learn pretty fast ). I followed a few HowTo guides but when I came accross; The Perfect Server - CentOS 5.5 x86_64 [ISPConfig 3] I thought, 'Yeah, that looks like what I might be looking for in a server right now'. So, I followed the HowTo but came accross some issues which I have sorted some out (which where mainly my own miss-spellings, heh!) but, when I got this section in the HowTo on page 5, I am quite stumped; Everything installs fine, but when it comes to me trying to start pure-ftpd I am presented with the following un-helpfull message; Code: [FONT="Courier New"]Starting pure-ftpd: [[COLOR="DarkRed"]FAILED[/COLOR]][/FONT] Now, after reading HowTo guides on Pure-FTPd and comments in the forums I am assuming that I may have to compile a Pure-Ftpd RPM file for myself for CentOS 5.5 x86_64? Could someone please point me in the right direction or if I am in-deed just missing something or that I may have messed a step up in the previous sections of the guide (which I do not beleave to be true so far now). Many thanks, -Aradan
Is this an OpenVZ or Virtuozze VPS? What's the output of Code: cat /proc/user_beancounters ? Is SELinux disabled? Any errors in your logs?
Hi All friend, I have problem the same ask him, I'm using VPS of OpenVZ OS Centos 5 Here is my erorr log of Pure-ftpd Jul 9 05:37:28 server pure-ftpd: (?@?) [ERROR] Unable to switch capabilities : Operation not permitted Jul 9 05:38:39 server clamd[18015]: SelfCheck: Database status OK. Jul 9 05:41:49 server pure-ftpd: (?@?) [ERROR] Unable to switch capabilities : Operation not permitted here is the log of cat /proc/user_beancounters [root@server log]# cat /proc/user_beancounters Version: 2.5 uid resource held maxheld barrier limit failcnt 54899: kmemsize 17076698 21604685 2147483646 2147483646 0 lockedpages 0 8 999999 999999 0 privvmpages 128635 177959 524288 524288 0 shmpages 8965 10309 131072 131072 0 dummy 0 0 0 0 0 numproc 56 83 999999 999999 0 physpages 68957 88253 0 2147483647 0 vmguarpages 0 0 131072 2147483647 0 oomguarpages 68958 88254 131072 2147483647 0 numtcpsock 24 43 7999992 7999992 0 numflock 7 12 999999 999999 0 numpty 1 3 500000 500000 0 numsiginfo 0 10 999999 999999 0 tcpsndbuf 420096 906392 214748160 396774400 0 tcprcvbuf 393216 2096912 214748160 396774400 0 othersockbuf 246768 305432 214748160 396774400 0 dgramrcvbuf 0 16944 214748160 396774400 0 numothersock 144 177 7999992 7999992 0 dcachesize 0 0 2147483646 2147483646 0 numfile 1837 2633 23999976 23999976 0 dummy 0 0 0 0 0 dummy 0 0 0 0 0 dummy 0 0 0 0 0 numiptent 14 14 999999 999999 0 [root@server log]#
If you don't have root access to the host system, you must rebuild PureFTPd, as shown somewhere else in this forum. Unfortunately I can't tell you how this works on CentOS as the instructions are for Debian/Ubuntu, so you might have to play around with this a bit.
Hi falko, thanks for reply. The VPS is on OpenVZ I can not seem to find any errors in the logs relating to pure-ftpd here is the out put for cat command Code: Version: 2.5 uid resource held maxheld barrier limit failcnt 4650: kmemsize 6631656 7228470 2147483646 2147483646 0 lockedpages 0 0 999999 999999 0 privvmpages 6532 20330 262144 262144 0 shmpages 688 720 131072 131072 0 dummy 0 0 0 0 0 numproc 19 23 999999 999999 0 physpages 3326 4682 0 2147483647 0 vmguarpages 0 0 131072 2147483647 0 oomguarpages 3327 4683 131072 2147483647 0 numtcpsock 5 6 7999992 7999992 0 numflock 3 4 999999 999999 0 numpty 1 1 500000 500000 0 numsiginfo 0 2 999999 999999 0 tcpsndbuf 89848 89848 214748160 396774400 0 tcprcvbuf 81920 0 214748160 396774400 0 othersockbuf 6984 24592 214748160 396774400 0 dgramrcvbuf 0 8472 214748160 396774400 0 numothersock 6 19 7999992 7999992 0 dcachesize 293907 316443 2147483646 2147483646 0 numfile 467 556 23999976 23999976 0 dummy 0 0 0 0 0 dummy 0 0 0 0 0 dummy 0 0 0 0 0 numiptent 14 14 999999 999999 0 and SELinux isn't running or installed as far as I can tell. Thanks.
Here is a guide how to install pure-ftpd on OpenVZ with CentOS installed: http://achmadz.blogspot.com/2009/08/getting-pure-ftpd-works-on-centos-53.html
Hi, Damir, I follow that instruction. But I found other instruction the same this but it work for me. It is deferenct configuration. Aradan, Please read this tail -n 200 /var/log/messages | grep ftp If you see the error message same ask below: pure-ftpd: (?@?) [ERROR] Unable to switch capabilities : Operation not permitted please: cd /tmp wget http://download.pureftpd.org/pub/pure-ftpd/releases/pure-ftpd-1.0.29.tar.gz tar -xvzf pure-ftpd-1.0.22.tar.gz cd pure-ftpd-1.0.22 ./configure --without-capabilities --with-virtualchroot --with‐mysql --with-pam --with-altlog --with-wrapper --with-mysql --with-cookie --with-throttling --withratios --with-paranoidmsg --with-quotas make make install after that /etc/init.d/pure-ftpd start I think it should be OK
