[NCLUG] ProFTPd service

[Joseph McDonald]

On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 01:29:22PM -0700, BJ Tiemessen wrote:
> 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.

Look in /var/lock for a lock file, 'find /var/lock/ | grep ftpd' remove it, 
then restart the service with the command you've listed.

	--joey


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