[BlueOnyx:11728] Re: Proftpd not running after update today (5106R)

[Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet]

On 11/29/2012 7:19 AM, Eric Peabody wrote:
> After today's update on a 5106R box, proftpd is not working.
>
> [root at hercules xinetd.d]# ftp localhost
> Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1).
> 421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection
> ftp>
>
> root at hercules xinetd.d]# netstat -nap |grep ":21 "
> tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:21 0.0.0.0:*                   LISTEN
> 16963/xinetd
>
> This was logged in /var/log/messages:
>
> Nov 29 07:18:00 hercules proftpd[17079]: warning: "ProFTPD" address/port
> (172.16.0.10:21) already in use by "ProFTPD server"
> Nov 29 07:18:00 hercules xinetd[16963]: EXIT: ftp signal=11 pid=17079
> duration=0(sec)
>
> Turned off the service in /etc/xinetd.d/proftpd, restart xinetd service
> and then:
>
> [root at hercules xinetd.d]# netstat -nap | grep ':21 '
> [root at hercules xinetd.d]# proftpd -t
> Checking syntax of configuration file
> hercules.bnserve.com proftpd[16408]: warning: "ProFTPD" address/port
> (172.16.0.10:21) already in use by "ProFTPD server"
> Segmentation fault
>
> What's next?

This has been known to happen when proftpd has been changed to run in 
standalone mode.  In your proftpd.conf file, what is listed on the line 
for "ServerType"?

If you want to see if proftpd is running in standalone mode, check:
# /etc/init.d/proftpd status

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