From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 1 02:30:29 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id CAA09897 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 1 Dec 1995 02:30:29 -0800 Received: from zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za [146.64.24.58]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id CAA09887 for ; Fri, 1 Dec 1995 02:30:11 -0800 Received: (from jhay@localhost) by zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (8.6.12/8.6.9) id MAA14354; Fri, 1 Dec 1995 12:26:31 +0200 From: John Hay Message-Id: <199512011026.MAA14354@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> Subject: Re: How do I fix this annoying entry? To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Date: Fri, 1 Dec 1995 12:26:30 +0200 (SAT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Doug White" at Dec 1, 95 01:07:03 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 972 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > We are running wu-ftpd 2.4 on some FreeBSD boxes here and we keep getting > this message whenever someone logs into the ftp server: > > ftpd[435]: open of pid file failed: No such file or directory > > Often followed by: > > last message repeated 4 times (the number varies) > > It always appears regardless if the session is anonymous or not. I > created /usr/anon/var/run in case it is looking there and no go. Regular > ftpd doesn't give this error. > > How can we satisfy wu-ftpd and get rid of this error? Or at least, how > can I find out where it wants to put the pid file? :) > > Thanks for any help you can provide. > > Doug White | Student, University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@gladstone.uoregon.edu | Major: Computer Science > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Eugene/Spfld BBS List Publisher > > On my machines it is looking in: /usr/local/daemon/ftpd/ John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@csir.co.za