Hi all, My name's Todd and I'm having a SERIOUS ERROR with ProFTPd. Just recently I upgraded my control panel from VHCS to ispCP (a VHCS fork) and I currently run ProFTPd-mysql as my FTP server. I am really losing sleep over this situation. Right now I cannot get it to start and it won't tell me why. Here's my proftpd.conf file: Code: # # ispCP OMEGA ProFTPd config file # # # # Includes required DSO modules. This is mandatory in proftpd 1.3 # #Include /etc/proftpd/modules.conf ServerName "xetaspace" ServerType standalone DeferWelcome off ShowSymlinks on MultilineRFC2228 on DefaultServer on ShowSymlinks on AllowOverwrite on UseReverseDNS off IdentLookups off AllowStoreRestart on AllowForeignAddress on LogFormat traff "%b %u" TimeoutNoTransfer 600 TimeoutStalled 600 TimeoutIdle 1200 DisplayLogin welcome.msg DisplayFirstChdir message #LsDefaultOptions "-l" DenyFilter \*.*/ DefaultRoot ~ # Uncomment this if you are using NIS or LDAP to retrieve passwords: #PersistentPasswd off # Port 21 is the standard FTP port. Port 21 # To prevent DoS attacks, set the maximum number of child processes # to 30. If you need to allow more than 30 concurrent connections # at once, simply increase this value. Note that this ONLY works # in standalone mode, in inetd mode you should use an inetd server # that allows you to limit maximum number of processes per service # (such as xinetd) MaxInstances 30 # Set the user and group that the server normally runs at. User nobody Group nogroup # Normally, we want files to be overwriteable. <Directory /*> # Umask 022 is a good standard umask to prevent new files and dirs # (second parm) from being group and world writable. Umask 022 022 AllowOverwrite on HideNoAccess on </Directory> <Limit ALL> IgnoreHidden on </Limit> <Global> RootLogin off TransferLog /var/log/proftpd/xferlog ExtendedLog /var/log/proftpd/ftp_traff.log read,write traff PathDenyFilter "\.quota$" </Global> # # ISPCP Managment; # #SQLBackend mysql # enable for proFTPd >= 1.3 SQLAuthTypes Crypt SQLAuthenticate on SQLConnectInfo ispcp@localhost vftp ******** SQLUserInfo ftp_users userid passwd uid gid homedir shell SQLGroupInfo ftp_group groupname gid members SQLMinID 2000 # # ISPCP Quota management; # QuotaEngine on QuotaShowQuotas on QuotaDisplayUnits Mb SQLNamedQuery get-quota-limit SELECT "name, quota_type, per_session, limit_type, bytes_in_avail, bytes_out_avail, bytes_xfer_avail, files_in_avail, files_out_avail, files_xfer_avail FROM quotalimits WHERE name = '%{0}' AND quota_type = '%{1}'" SQLNamedQuery get-quota-tally SELECT "name, quota_type, bytes_in_used, bytes_out_used, bytes_xfer_used, files_in_used, files_out_used, files_xfer_used FROM quotatallies WHERE name = '%{0}' AND quota_type = '%{1}'" SQLNamedQuery update-quota-tally UPDATE "bytes_in_used = bytes_in_used + %{0}, bytes_out_used = bytes_out_used + %{1}, bytes_xfer_used = bytes_xfer_used + %{2}, files_in_used = files_in_used + %{3}, files_out_used = files_out_used + %{4}, files_xfer_used = files_xfer_used + %{5} WHERE name = '%{6}' AND quota_type = '%{7}'" quotatallies SQLNamedQuery insert-quota-tally INSERT "%{0}, %{1}, %{2}, %{3}, %{4}, %{5}, %{6}, %{7}" quotatallies QuotaLock /var/run/proftpd/tally.lock QuotaLimitTable sql:/get-quota-limit QuotaTallyTable sql:/get-quota-tally/update-quota-tally/insert-quota-tally I tried removing and reinstalling ProFTPd with apt-get and still nothing works. I purged the config files and nothing at all. What really drives me up the wall is that when I run "/etc/init.d/proftpd start" it tells me it's starting but doesn't start. And there is nothing logged either! It's driving me insane. Please help! Any help is appreciated! Thanks, Todd
Did you check all log files? What's the output of Code: netstat -tap ? Have you tried to manually run the command from the init script that actually starts Proftpd? I guess it will throw an error.
Can u give me the output of these commands: First Code: proftpd -t then Code: proftpd -n -c /etc/proftpd.conf finally Code: proftpd -d 5
