[NCLUG] ProFTPd service

[Matt Taggart]

BJ Tiemessen writes...

> I am trying to run proftpd with the command 'service proftpd start' 
> which returns "OK" but when I look at processes it does not show up. 
>  When I try to stop it or restart the service I get shutdown fail, start 
> ok.  When I look at the status of services I get a message like proftpd 
> is stopped but subsys is locked.  How can I figure out why the program 
> will not run?  Thanks.

Are you running it via inetd? Check /etc/inetd.conf.

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Matt Taggart
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