FTP and outging mail from client problems

recci · June 19, 2009, 3:55pm

As per the end of my DNS thread everything is working apart from two issues thanks to ronald.

The first issues is I cant connect to any of my virtual servers via ftp:

In virtualmin system information ProFTPd FTP Server is not running, when I try to enable it I get the following error:

Failed to start service :

Starting ftp server proftpd

warning: unable to determine IP address of ‘ns1.flirtsnflings.com_’
error: no valid servers configured
Fatal: error processing configuration file ‘/etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf’
…fail!

I tired to edit the /etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf and remove the _ from the end of ns1.flirtsnflings.com but its not in that file.

The second issue is sending outgoing mail from thunderbird email client. I can receive mails but I cannot send them it just continually asks for the password even though i know its correct. I seen in the forums this issues has been mentioned before but I was unable to find the solution. Both sending and receiving os working fine from within usermin.

ronald · June 19, 2009, 4:21pm

as for the mail I think this may have to do with your TLS settings in thunderbird. I would disable them if they are enabled atm and enable them if they were disabled atm. And see how that goes.

ftp -> Joe, Eric?

oh and you can always use port 22 in your ftp client…

recci · June 19, 2009, 4:43pm

Iv tired the mail on all setting still the same.
.
Whats the deal with ftp on port 22 again? that does seem to be working

Just to get one thing straight ProFTPd FTP Server is supposed to be running after a default installation of virtualmin using the install script correct?

ronald · June 19, 2009, 4:55pm

port 22 is the ssh server which is a secure way of logging into your server. You can use your ftpclient to upload files to your server. So its not proftp, but the ssh server (and is preferred actually)

proftp should be running on a default installation, but you had trouble with FQDN which may have messed up something which I can not find.

if you save passwords in thunderbird, try deleting it for joomlaplazza and empty the cache if there is such thing. I think somehow you got the wrong password in thunderbird. Or try another mailclient to test. evolution, mulberry etc.

ronald · June 19, 2009, 6:17pm

BTW in the documentation here: http://www.virtualmin.com/documentation/email/pop-and-imap

look at the bottom part contributed by a member. For thunderbird to login it needs ftp access as well and that’s not working yet with you. Per haps the two are related…

recci · June 19, 2009, 9:52pm

I found this thread where a guys is having the same problem but mine is worse because I cant even send when auth is off.

http://www.virtualmin.com/node/9441

He says something about enabling SMTPS and/or Submission in Postfix, so I enabled those and restarted postfix but no difference

Joe · June 19, 2009, 11:19pm

What are we talking about here? Mail or FTP? If mail, sending or receiving or both? (All different servers, all different protocols, and all have different troubleshooting steps and solutions.)

If mail, the maillog is where all answers will be found, so we’ll want to see the relevant entries from the maillog.

recci · June 19, 2009, 11:28pm

we are talking about mail and FTP as separate issues. But id like to deal with the FTP first

ProFTPd FTP is down and i get this error when i try to restart it

Failed to start service :

* Starting ftp server proftpd
* warning: unable to determine IP address of 'ns1.flirtsnflings.com_'
* error: no valid servers configured
* Fatal: error processing configuration file '/etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf' ...fail!

any ideas Joe?

Joe · June 20, 2009, 12:05am

 * warning: unable to determine IP address of 'ns1.flirtsnflings.com_'

So this one means DNS still isn’t setup right.

What do you get when you run:

host ns1.flirtsnflings.com

I get a reasonable response back when I look it up from my neck of the woods, but for some reason your system isn’t able to look it up. Figuring out why is the first step.

recci · June 20, 2009, 12:10am

I get

ns1.flirtsnflings.com has address 94.76.201.163

which is fine but if you notice in the error message its ns1.flirtsnflings.com_ with an _ at the end of it, I dont know where the _ is coming from?

Joe · June 20, 2009, 12:13am

which is fine but if you notice in the error message its ns1.flirtsnflings.com_ with an _ at the end of it, I dont know where the _ is coming from?

Yeah, that’s whack. Do you have a typo in your /etc/hosts file or in hostname?

recci · June 20, 2009, 12:16am

Na both /etc/hosts and /etc/hostname are fine. Was the first thing i checked(im learning ;)). Hence im stumped.

Joe · June 20, 2009, 12:18am

Try:

grep -R flirtsnflings.com_ /etc/*

See if maybe there’s some configuration somewhere about that.

And, refresh my memory on what “hostname -f” returns?

recci · June 20, 2009, 12:21am


 grep -R flirtsnflings.com_ /etc/*
/etc/apache2/sites-available/flirtsnflings.com.conf:ErrorLog /var/log/virtualmin                  /flirtsnflings.com_error_log
/etc/apache2/sites-available/flirtsnflings.com.conf:CustomLog /var/log/virtualmi                  n/flirtsnflings.com_access_log combined
/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/flirtsnflings.com.conf:ErrorLog /var/log/virtualmin/f                  lirtsnflings.com_error_log
/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/flirtsnflings.com.conf:CustomLog /var/log/virtualmin/                  flirtsnflings.com_access_log combined
/etc/awstats/awstats.flirtsnflings.com.conf:LogFile=/var/log/virtualmin/flirtsnf                  lings.com_access_log
/etc/awstats/awstats.www.flirtsnflings.com.conf:LogFile=/var/log/virtualmin/flir                  tsnflings.com_access_log
grep: /etc/fonts/conf.d/30-defoma.conf: No such file or directory
/etc/logrotate.conf:/var/log/virtualmin/flirtsnflings.com_access_log /var/log/vi                  rtualmin/flirtsnflings.com_error_log {
/etc/webmin/syslog/flirtsnflings.acl:extras=/var/log/virtualmin/flirtsnflings.co                  m_access_log Apache access log for flirtsnflings.com    /var/log/virtualmin/flir                  tsnflings.com_error_log Apache error log for flirtsnflings.com
/etc/webmin/webalizer/flirtsnflings.acl:dir=/var/log/virtualmin/flirtsnflings.co                  m_access_log
/etc/webmin/webalizer/var_log_virtualmin_flirtsnflings.com_access_log.conf:LogFi                  le /var/log/virtualmin/flirtsnflings.com_access_log

recci · June 20, 2009, 12:22am

hostname -f is returning:

hostname: Unknown host

Joe · June 20, 2009, 12:27am


hostname -f is returning:
hostname: Unknown host

What?!? That makes no sense.

What’s in /etc/hosts?

recci · June 20, 2009, 12:32am


127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain localhost
94.76.201.163   ns1.flirtsnflings.com ns1
94.76.201.164   ns2.flirtsnflings.com ns2

Joe · June 20, 2009, 12:34am

Looks right.

What’s in the “hosts:” line in /etc/nsswitch.conf?

recci · June 20, 2009, 12:37am

passwd: compat

group: compat

shadow: compat

hosts: files dns

networks: files

protocols: db files

services: db files

ethers: db files

rpc: db files

netgroup: nis

ronald · June 20, 2009, 9:51am

In my system FTP is running as nobody and is User:Group-> ftp:ftp

in your system it’s running as ftp:nogroup. That may cause it as it may not have the correct permissions?

edit: If I recall you also made a virtual server or user called FTP … You may want to get rid of it. And check the users:group module found under webmin