[BlueOnyx:15548] Re: proftpd fails to start

[Gerald Waugh]

On 06/12/2014 11:37 AM, wcstaff at webcoast.com wrote:
>> Hi Tom,
>>
>>> Should I uninstall it?
>> No. Like Gerald said: ProFTPd can either be run "Standalone" or via
>> "XINETd". BlueOnyx starts/stops ProFTPd via XINETd. The benefit of that
>> is that XINETd allows us to throttle the amount of FTP connections
>> that's allowed.
>>
>> So you do NOT start ProFTPd via "/sbin/service proftpd start". Instead
>> it's started via "/sbin/service xinetd start".
>>
>> If ProFTPd is set up to run via XINETd and you try to start it via
>> "/sbin/service proftpd start", then it naturally complains that it's
>> already running, because XINETd has started it already.
>>
>> So of you really need to restart ProFTPd, you just do it this way:
>>
>> /sbin/service xinetd restart
>>
>> --
>> With best regards
>>
>> Michael Stauber
> What bothered me is *when the system boots up and/or I "/sbin/service xinetd
> start",* it shows ProFTPd fails to start. 
> But "/sbin/service xinetd restart" works fine.
> I understand now.
> Thanks
>
At this point it should be already running.
You can't start a running process.

--
Gerald


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