ProFTPd on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS won't start

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Hello Everybody,

I am in an desperate situation, so I’d hope you are able to help me.

Fresh installation: Everything works fine, but ProFTPd won’t start…

What can I do?
Thanx for your help…

xxxxxweb01 - root - /root - (/bin/bash)
18$ service proftpd restart
Job for proftpd.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See “systemctl status proftpd.service” and “journalctl -xe” for details.

xxxxxweb01 - root - /root - (/bin/bash)
19$ systemctl status proftpd.service
● proftpd.service - LSB: Starts ProFTPD daemon
Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/proftpd; bad; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fr 2017-09-08 11:20:24 CEST; 17s ago
Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
Process: 5102 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/proftpd start (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Sep 08 11:20:24 xxxxxweb01 systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Starts ProFTPD daemon…
Sep 08 11:20:24 xxxxxweb01 proftpd[5102]: * Starting ftp server proftpd
Sep 08 11:20:24 xxxxxweb01 proftpd[5102]: 2017-09-08 11:20:24,173 bbpesweb01 proftpd[5112]: fatal: unknown configuration directive ‘TLSEngine’ on line 5 of '/et
Sep 08 11:20:24 xxxxxweb01 proftpd[5102]: …fail!
Sep 08 11:20:24 xxxxxweb01 systemd[1]: proftpd.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=1
Sep 08 11:20:24 xxxxxweb01 systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: Starts ProFTPD daemon.
Sep 08 11:20:24 xxxxxweb01 systemd[1]: proftpd.service: Unit entered failed state.
Sep 08 11:20:24 xxxxxweb01 systemd[1]: proftpd.service: Failed with result ‘exit-code’.

xxxxxweb01 - root - /root - (/bin/bash)
20$ proftpd -configtest
2017-09-08 11:21:01,798 xxxxxweb01 proftpd[5117]: fatal: -c requires an absolute path

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following

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First at the installed package to uninstall it. After that use APT to reinstall it again.

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@Jimmy.tam: Actually I don’t understand your sentences. Could you please explain what you mean?

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read also here. :wink:

https://www.virtualmin.com/node/53543#new

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follow this thread , worked for me

https://www.virtualmin.com/node/53455

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This don’t work for me… Testing the following link…

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Make sure you have the latest virtualmin-config package and run the following:

# virtualmin config-system --include ProFTPd

This assumes you’re running a system installed with the 6.0.x version of the install script. Old systems with ProFTPd problems should not follow this step.

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@Joe, @ll: Thanks for your help. I commented out all TLS-Lines an it works… (https://www.virtualmin.com/node/53455) => Problem solved!

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Thanks Joe - why is this still an issue?