[NCLUG] ProFTPd service

[BJ Tiemessen]

I tried removing the lock file, but I get the same results when trying 
to restart, the service.

Joseph McDonald wrote:

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