Re: ProFTPD wont start!

[Kris D. <kd...@we...>]

Bill James wrote:
> You actually have 2 versions installed, most likely the inet version over
> top of the standard version. If you do not want to run the inet version I
> suggest you use rpm to uninstall it (rpm -e proftpd-inetd) then try to run
> (rpm -e proftpd)
> 
> When you have that done just run the rpm proftpd-1.2.8rc1-1.i386.rpm and you
> should be fine...You may need the proftpd-common rpm also

Hmmm.  I'm not sure where you've been getting ProFTPD RPMs;  the sets
I've seen include proftpd-{version}, proftpd-inetd-{version}, and
proftpd-standalone-{version}.  All may be installed, but it's somewhat
pointless to have both -inetd and -standalone as I'm not aware of any
way to specify a configuration file.

"w.h." wrote:  (in an unreplyable MIME/HTML-formatted message)
>  Now...im I supposed to download
> proFTPD-standalone-1.2.8rc1.rpm  as well??  I did anyways and it wouldnt
> install because it needs the a file called: chkconfig or something
> and i dont have that.  I canceled the installation so it doesnt mess it the
> proftpd installation up.  Now i couldnt find the ProFTPD-common rpm
> though...i looked through about 3-4 ftp sites and none had it. 

As for what's required for -standalone, it *does* appear to require
chkconfig- as do a number of other core system packages.  If you're
missing chkconfig on a RedHat box, something is very wrong.  Install
it;  it's a useful tool to have to maintain the symlinks in the
/etc/rc.* trees.

ProFTPD has three main parts I'm aware of:  the core program and
internal libraries, documentation, logrotate and PAM configurations; 
the "standalone" frontend configuration file and /etc/rc.d setup;  and
the "inetd" frontend configuration file and automagical setup for
inetd.  (Note that the inetd setup doesn't know about xinetd;  this may
have changed in recent versions.  YMMV.)  The core and one of the other
two are both REQUIRED to function correctly.

-kgd
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