<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Jul 10, 2009, at 10:59 AM, Michael Stauber wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hi Tjerk,<br><br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">port already in use?<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">If that's the original configuration and you say that should work, any idea<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">why it doesn’t work for me? And.. is FTP not a socket ip-to-ip.. does the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">ftp client send the hostname in the request?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Is this problem related to the warnings I have in my messages log:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Jun 29 21:34:28 server3 proftpd[15958]: warning: "ProFTPD" address/port<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">(:21) already in use by "ProFTPD server"<br></blockquote><br>There are two ways how one can use ProFTPd:<br><br>1.) Through XINETd (default for BlueOnyx)<br><br>2.) Stand alone deamon.<br><br>I guess you may somehow managed to enable both medthods, which now cause those <br>error messages.<br><br>Check your /etc/proftpd.conf<br><br>Make sure the line "ServerType" looks like this:<br><br>ServerType inetd<br><br>It should *NOT* read:<br><br>ServerType standalone<br><br>Then - for good measure - run:<br><br>/sbin/chkconfig --level 2345 proftpd off<br>/etc/init.d/proftpd stop<br>/etc/init.d/xinetd restart<br><br>If (and only if!) your FTP service is not running afterwards, go to the <br>BlueOnyx GUI, disable FTP services, save the changes and then enable it and <br>save the changes again. That should fix it.<br><br>-- <br>With best regards<br><br>Michael Stauber<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div>Something else has to be going on... I've gone through everything again and my proftpd IS running in xinetd:</div><div><br></div><div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div># This is the ProFTPD configuration file</div><div># $Id: proftpd.conf,v 1.1 2004/02/26 17:54:30 thias Exp $</div><div><br></div><div>ServerName "ProFTPD server"</div><div>ServerIdent on "FTP Server ready."</div><div>ServerAdmin root@localhost</div><div>#ServerType standalone</div><div>ServerType inetd</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Did the other stuff in shell:</div><div><br></div><div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>[root@box1 ~]# /sbin/chkconfig --level 2345 proftpd off</div><div>[root@box1 ~]# /etc/init.d/proftpd stop</div><div>Shutting down proftpd: [FAILED]</div><div>[root@box1 ~]# /etc/init.d/xinetd restart</div><div>Stopping xinetd: [ OK ]</div><div>Starting xinetd: [ OK ]</div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>I take it that stopping the standalone server failed because it wasn't running. Still I have these lines in my logwatch mailing every day:</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; "></span></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; ">--------------------- proftpd-messages Begin ------------------------ <br><br><br>**Unmatched Entries**<br>warning: "ProFTPD" address/port (75.14.24.114:21) already in use by "ProFTPD server" <br>warning: "ProFTPD" address/port (75.14.24.114:21) already in use by "ProFTPD server" <br>warning: "ProFTPD" address/port (75.14.24.114:21) already in use by "ProFTPD server" <br>warning: "ProFTPD" address/port (75.14.24.114:21) already in use by "ProFTPD server" <br>warning: "ProFTPD" address/port (75.14.24.114:21) already in use by "ProFTPD server" <br>warning: "ProFTPD" address/port (75.14.24.114:21) already in use by "ProFTPD server" <br></span></div></blockquote><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="monospace"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="monospace">Around 100 of them EVERY day.</font></div></div></body></html>