Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 16:00:09 -0700 From: Michael Haro <mharo@freebsd.org> To: Sam Nilsson <sam@servingpeace.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: proftpd-1.2.10 Message-ID: <20041025230009.GA50812@bitsurf.net> In-Reply-To: <417D819A.4090009@servingpeace.com> References: <417BDA43.7000609@carpetburn.org> <20041025221910.GA50532@bitsurf.net> <417D819A.4090009@servingpeace.com>
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If you include support for ftpctl there could also be a /var/run/proftpd/proftpd.sock. I'll make the port (and package) create /var/run/proftpd/ to fix this problem. It's weird that I've never experienced this problem. I have various 4.x and 5.x ftp servers using the proftpd port. Michael On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 03:43:38PM -0700, Sam Nilsson wrote: > Michael Haro wrote: > > 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. > > Hi Michael, > > I just installed 1.2.10 from ports last night on 5.3Beta3. I had the > same problem. Server wouldn't start because the scoreboard file didn't > exist. > > The problem was proftpd wanted the scoreboard file to be > /var/run/proftpd/proftpd.scoreboard, but the directory /var/run/proftpd > did not exist. > > I don't know what else might live in that profptd directory, but on my > install right now it is only the scoreboard file. This makes me wonder > whether it should just live in /var/run/ with proftpd's pid file? > > - Sam Nilsson
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