[BlueOnyx:19436] FTP not starting on 5209R

[Colin Jack]

I have a new 5209R VPS and cannot get ProFTPd to start:

[root at mercury]# systemctl status proftpd.service
* proftpd.service - LSB: ProFTPd FTP Server
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/rc.d/init.d/proftpd)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2016-04-08 10:33:59 WEST; 3min 57s ago
     Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
  Process: 11751 ExecStart=/etc/rc.d/init.d/proftpd start (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Apr 08 10:33:58 mercury systemd[1]: Starting LSB: ProFTPd FTP Server...
Apr 08 10:33:59 mercury proftpd[11751]: Starting proftpd: [FAILED]
Apr 08 10:33:59 mercury systemd[1]: proftpd.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1
Apr 08 10:33:59 mercury systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: ProFTPd FTP Server.
Apr 08 10:33:59 mercury systemd[1]: Unit proftpd.service entered failed state.
Apr 08 10:33:59 mercury systemd[1]: proftpd.service failed.

Anybody able to give me a clue?

I haven't changed anything - vanilla install.

Thanks

Colin