Failed to start service : Starting proftpd: [FAILED]

lwc5757 · December 16, 2013, 10:45am

My proftpd is stopped after I restart my server. When I click Start Proftpd on virtualmin, it showed me Failed to start service : Starting proftpd: [FAILED]. Then I login to my server through ssh and I used these command but it give me error of


[root@SC-D6119 ~]# service proftpd start
Starting proftpd:                                          [FAILED]
[root@SC-D6119 ~]# service proftpd stop
Shutting down proftpd:                                     [FAILED]
[root@SC-D6119 ~]# service proftpd restart
Shutting down proftpd:                                     [FAILED]
Starting proftpd:                                          [FAILED]
I tested it several time and one time when i type service proftpd start, it showed me that /etc/int.d.proftpd not found.

Then I use the command yum install proftpd but it said that i have installed it and nothing to do.

Eric · December 16, 2013, 1:37pm

Howdy,

Are you by chance using CentOS?

If so, what does this command show:

rpm -qa | grep proftp

lwc5757 · December 16, 2013, 2:11pm

Hello,
Yes, CentOS 6
Here is the result

[root@SC-D6119 ~]# rpm -qa | grep proftp
proftpd-1.3.3g-2.el6.x86_64

lwc5757 · December 16, 2013, 2:19pm

what else of test can I take?

Eric · December 16, 2013, 3:12pm

Okay, that’s good, you have the standard CentOS ProFTPd package.

When trying to start ProFTPd, do you see any messages or errors in /var/log/messages, or in your other log files?

-Eric

lwc5757 · December 16, 2013, 3:54pm


[root@SC-D6119 ~]# vi /var/log/messages
Dec 15 12:45:41 SC-D6119 kernel: imklog 4.6.2, log source = /proc/kmsg started.
Dec 15 12:45:41 SC-D6119 rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" swVersion="4.6.2" x-pid="1213" x-info="http://www.rsyslog.com"] (re)start
Dec 15 12:45:41 SC-D6119 kernel: Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset
Dec 15 12:45:41 SC-D6119 kernel: Initializing cgroup subsys cpu
Dec 15 12:45:41 SC-D6119 kernel: Linux version 2.6.32-220.el6.x86_64 (mockbuild@c6b18n3.bsys.dev.centos.org) (gcc version 4.4.6 20110731 (Red Hat 4.4.6-3) (GCC) ) #1 SMP Tue Dec 6 19:48:22 GMT 2011
Dec 15 12:45:41 SC-D6119 kernel: Command line: ro root=/dev/mapper/vg-root rd_NO_LUKS LANG=en_US.UTF-8 rd_NO_MD  KEYTABLE=us quiet rd_LVM_LV=vg/swap SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 rhgb crashkernel=auto rd_LVM_LV=vg/root rd_NO_DM
Dec 15 12:45:41 SC-D6119 kernel: KERNEL supported cpus:
Dec 15 12:45:41 SC-D6119 kernel:  Intel GenuineIntel
Dec 15 12:45:41 SC-D6119 kernel:  AMD AuthenticAMD
Dec 15 12:45:41 SC-D6119 kernel:  Centaur CentaurHauls
Dec 15 12:45:41 SC-D6119 kernel: BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
Dec 15 12:45:41 SC-D6119 kernel: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
Dec 15 12:45:41 SC-D6119 kernel: BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
Dec 15 12:45:41 SC-D6119 kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000000e8000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
@
"/var/log/messages" 97940L, 11451236C

There have no file on /var/log/proftpd

Eric · December 16, 2013, 5:13pm

Okay, what output do you receive if you run this command:

/usr/sbin/proftpd

lwc5757 · December 17, 2013, 5:13am


[root@SC-D6119 ~]# /usr/sbin/proftpd
 - warning: handling possibly truncated configuration data at line 250 of '/etc/proftpd.conf'
 - Fatal: : unclosed  context on line 250 of '/etc/proftpd.conf'

and here is my proftpd.conf

This is the ProFTPD configuration file

See: http://www.proftpd.org/docs/directives/linked/by-name.html

Server Config - config used for anything outside a or context

See: http://www.proftpd.org/docs/howto/Vhost.html

ServerName “svr1.justforsteam.com”
ServerIdent on “FTP Server ready.”
ServerAdmin root@localhost
DefaultServer on

Cause every FTP user except adm to be chrooted into their home directory

Aliasing /etc/security/pam_env.conf into the chroot allows pam_env to

work at session-end time (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/477120)

VRootEngine on
DefaultRoot ~ !adm
VRootAlias /etc/security/pam_env.conf etc/security/pam_env.conf

Use pam to authenticate (default) and be authoritative

AuthPAMConfig proftpd
AuthOrder mod_auth_pam.c* mod_auth_unix.c

If you use NIS/YP/LDAP you may need to disable PersistentPasswd

#PersistentPasswd off

Don’t do reverse DNS lookups (hangs on DNS problems)

UseReverseDNS off

Set the user and group that the server runs as

User nobody
Group nobody

To prevent DoS attacks, set the maximum number of child processes

to 20. If you need to allow more than 20 concurrent connections

at once, simply increase this value. Note that this ONLY works

in standalone mode; in inetd mode you should use an inetd server

that allows you to limit maximum number of processes per service

(such as xinetd)

MaxInstances 20

Disable sendfile by default since it breaks displaying the download speeds in

ftptop and ftpwho

UseSendfile off

Define the log formats

LogFormat default “%h %l %u %t “%r” %s %b”
LogFormat auth “%v [%P] %h %t “%r” %s”

Dynamic Shared Object (DSO) loading

See README.DSO and howto/DSO.html for more details

General database support (http://www.proftpd.org/docs/contrib/mod_sql.html)

LoadModule mod_sql.c

Support for base-64 or hex encoded MD5 and SHA1 passwords from SQL tables

(contrib/mod_sql_passwd.html)

LoadModule mod_sql_passwd.c

Mysql support (requires proftpd-mysql package)

(http://www.proftpd.org/docs/contrib/mod_sql.html)

LoadModule mod_sql_mysql.c

Postgresql support (requires proftpd-postgresql package)

(http://www.proftpd.org/docs/contrib/mod_sql.html)

LoadModule mod_sql_postgres.c

Quota support (http://www.proftpd.org/docs/contrib/mod_quotatab.html)

LoadModule mod_quotatab.c

File-specific “driver” for storing quota table information in files

(http://www.proftpd.org/docs/contrib/mod_quotatab_file.html)

LoadModule mod_quotatab_file.c

SQL database “driver” for storing quota table information in SQL tables

(http://www.proftpd.org/docs/contrib/mod_quotatab_sql.html)

LoadModule mod_quotatab_sql.c

LDAP support (requires proftpd-ldap package)

(http://www.proftpd.org/docs/directives/linked/config_ref_mod_ldap.html)

LoadModule mod_ldap.c

LDAP quota support (requires proftpd-ldap package)

(http://www.proftpd.org/docs/contrib/mod_quotatab_ldap.html)

LoadModule mod_quotatab_ldap.c

Support for authenticating users using the RADIUS protocol

(http://www.proftpd.org/docs/contrib/mod_radius.html)

LoadModule mod_radius.c

Retrieve quota limit table information from a RADIUS server

(http://www.proftpd.org/docs/contrib/mod_quotatab_radius.html)

LoadModule mod_quotatab_radius.c

Administrative control actions for the ftpdctl program

(http://www.proftpd.org/docs/contrib/mod_ctrls_admin.html)

LoadModule mod_ctrls_admin.c

Execute external programs or scripts at various points in the process

of handling FTP commands

(http://www.castaglia.org/proftpd/modules/mod_exec.html)

LoadModule mod_exec.c

Support for POSIX ACLs

(http://www.proftpd.org/docs/modules/mod_facl.html)

LoadModule mod_facl.c

Support for using the GeoIP library to look up geographical information on

the connecting client and using that to set access controls for the server

(http://www.castaglia.org/proftpd/modules/mod_geoip.html)

LoadModule mod_geoip.c

Configure server availability based on system load

(http://www.proftpd.org/docs/contrib/mod_load.html)

LoadModule mod_load.c

Limit downloads to a multiple of upload volume (see README.ratio)

LoadModule mod_ratio.c

Rewrite FTP commands sent by clients on-the-fly,

using regular expression matching and substitution

(http://www.proftpd.org/docs/contrib/mod_rewrite.html)

LoadModule mod_rewrite.c

Support for the SSH2, SFTP, and SCP protocols, for secure file transfer over

an SSH2 connection (http://www.castaglia.org/proftpd/modules/mod_sftp.html)

LoadModule mod_sftp.c

Use PAM to provide a ‘keyboard-interactive’ SSH2 authentication method for

mod_sftp (http://www.castaglia.org/proftpd/modules/mod_sftp_pam.html)

LoadModule mod_sftp_pam.c

Use SQL (via mod_sql) for looking up authorized SSH2 public keys for user

and host based authentication

(http://www.castaglia.org/proftpd/modules/mod_sftp_sql.html)

LoadModule mod_sftp_sql.c

Provide data transfer rate “shaping” across the entire server

(http://www.castaglia.org/proftpd/modules/mod_shaper.html)

LoadModule mod_shaper.c

Support for miscellaneous SITE commands such as SITE MKDIR, SITE SYMLINK,

and SITE UTIME (http://www.proftpd.org/docs/contrib/mod_site_misc.html)

LoadModule mod_site_misc.c

Provide an external SSL session cache using shared memory

(contrib/mod_tls_shmcache.html)

LoadModule mod_tls_shmcache.c

Use the /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny files, or other allow/deny

files, for IP-based access control

(http://www.proftpd.org/docs/contrib/mod_wrap.html)

LoadModule mod_wrap.c

Use the /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny files, or other allow/deny

files, as well as SQL-based access rules, for IP-based access control

(http://www.proftpd.org/docs/contrib/mod_wrap2.html)

LoadModule mod_wrap2.c

Support module for mod_wrap2 that handles access rules stored in specially

formatted files on disk

(http://www.proftpd.org/docs/contrib/mod_wrap2_file.html)

LoadModule mod_wrap2_file.c

Support module for mod_wrap2 that handles access rules stored in SQL

database tables (http://www.proftpd.org/docs/contrib/mod_wrap2_sql.html)

LoadModule mod_wrap2_sql.c

Provide a flexible way of specifying that certain configuration directives

only apply to certain sessions, based on credentials such as connection

class, user, or group membership

(http://www.proftpd.org/docs/contrib/mod_ifsession.html)

LoadModule mod_ifsession.c

TLS (http://www.castaglia.org/proftpd/modules/mod_tls.html)

TLSEngine on TLSRequired on TLSRSACertificateFile /etc/pki/tls/certs/proftpd.pem TLSRSACertificateKeyFile /etc/pki/tls/certs/proftpd.pem TLSCipherSuite ALL:!ADH:!DES TLSOptions NoCertRequest TLSVerifyClient off #TLSRenegotiate ctrl 3600 data 512000 required off timeout 300 TLSLog /var/log/proftpd/tls.log TLSSessionCache shm:/file=/var/run/proftpd/sesscache

Dynamic ban lists (http://www.proftpd.org/docs/contrib/mod_ban.html)

Enable this with PROFTPD_OPTIONS=-DDYNAMIC_BAN_LISTS in /etc/sysconfig/proftpd

LoadModule mod_ban.c BanEngine on BanLog /var/log/proftpd/ban.log BanTable /var/run/proftpd/ban.tab

If the same client reaches the MaxLoginAttempts limit 2 times

within 10 minutes, automatically add a ban for that client that

will expire after one hour.

BanOnEvent MaxLoginAttempts 2/00:10:00 01:00:00

Allow the FTP admin to manually add/remove bans

BanControlsACLs all allow user ftpadm

Global Config - config common to Server Config and all virtual hosts

See: http://www.proftpd.org/docs/howto/Vhost.html

Umask 022 is a good standard umask to prevent new dirs and files

from being group and world writable

Umask 022

Allow users to overwrite files and change permissions

AllowOverwrite yes

AllowAll

A basic anonymous configuration, with an upload directory

Enable this with PROFTPD_OPTIONS=-DANONYMOUS_FTP in /etc/sysconfig/proftpd

User ftp Group ftp AccessGrantMsg "Anonymous login ok, restrictions apply."

# We want clients to be able to login with "anonymous" as well as "ftp"
UserAlias			anonymous ftp

# Limit the maximum number of anonymous logins
MaxClients			10 "Sorry, max %m users -- try again later"

# Put the user into /pub right after login
#DefaultChdir		/pub

# We want 'welcome.msg' displayed at login, '.message' displayed in
# each newly chdired directory and tell users to read README* files. 
DisplayLogin		/welcome.msg
DisplayChdir		.message
DisplayReadme		README*

# Cosmetic option to make all files appear to be owned by user "ftp"
DirFakeUser			on ftp
DirFakeGroup		on ftp

# Limit WRITE everywhere in the anonymous chroot
<Limit WRITE SITE_CHMOD>

lwc5757 · December 17, 2013, 8:37am

Oh well… It worked when I remove the anonymous part from my proftpd.conf

A basic anonymous configuration, with an upload directory

Enable this with PROFTPD_OPTIONS=-DANONYMOUS_FTP in /etc/sysconfig/proftpd

User ftp Group ftp AccessGrantMsg "Anonymous login ok, restrictions apply."

# We want clients to be able to login with "anonymous" as well as "ftp"
UserAlias			anonymous ftp

# Limit the maximum number of anonymous logins
MaxClients			10 "Sorry, max %m users -- try again later"

# Put the user into /pub right after login
#DefaultChdir		/pub

# We want 'welcome.msg' displayed at login, '.message' displayed in
# each newly chdired directory and tell users to read README* files. 
DisplayLogin		/welcome.msg
DisplayChdir		.message
DisplayReadme		README*

# Cosmetic option to make all files appear to be owned by user "ftp"
DirFakeUser			on ftp
DirFakeGroup		on ftp

Limit WRITE everywhere in the anonymous chroot

<Limit WRITE SITE_CHMOD>

Locutus · December 17, 2013, 10:18am

If you don’t need the anonymous FTP feature, it should be okay to just remove that block. Otherwise it should help to just add a line reading “” at the end of the block to fix the syntax error.