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Date:      Mon, 25 Oct 2004 15:19:10 -0700
From:      Michael Haro <mharo@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Jeff Carpenter <i8degrees@carpetburn.org>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Port: proftpd-1.2.10
Message-ID:  <20041025221910.GA50532@bitsurf.net>
In-Reply-To: <417BDA43.7000609@carpetburn.org>
References:  <417BDA43.7000609@carpetburn.org>

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I've never experienced this problem myself and never had anyone email
it to me or submit a problem report (thanks!).  I'm attempting to be able to
reproduce it so I can provide a fix in the port.

Michael

On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 11:37:23AM -0500, Jeff Carpenter wrote:
> Hello there.  I have recently installed proftpd on my FreeBSD 4.10 box 
> via the ports system.  I was stumped as to why the server wasn't booting 
> up!  I did some searching on Google and I found the solution; a 
> scoreboard file has to be created. 
> 
> I'm curious as to why the ports install behaves like this?  What use is 
> there for the user to create this file manually?  And better yet, why 
> isn't it documented on the port?
> 
> ---Reference---
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-February/037367.html



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