ProFTPD wont start

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I’ve been having the same problem.

after reviewing the thread, I did the following

cd /etc
ls -l ho*

and found my hosts file was indeed empty, however there was a hosts.bak that had pretty much everything in it I would expect.

date on the file was Aug 02, I took a look at Webmin > Webmin > Webmin Actions Log, did find an action on the same date and time, but that was a “Manually edited server” when I was experimenting with some Apache conf for a server.

So I figured, let’s try

cd /etc/
mv hosts hosts.bad
mv hosts.bak hosts
/etc/init.d/proftpd restart

and the proftpd service restarted fine.

however there are problems with using the ftp service (cannot ftp in and put file).

did a check for updates, a number of updates were applied, ran another ftp test from a windows machine and was able to put file. From a CentOS machine, started FTP, was able to log in, typed ls, got message

227 Entering Passive Mode (192,168,nn,nn,nn).

and connection timed out.

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Hi Eric
Similar problem here, Can’t get ProFTPD to start on CentOS 5.6 from virtualmin.
In virtualmin proFTPD is always showing as not runnning however if I give this command from SSH

  • service --status-all

proftpd (pid 9676) is running…

It appear that proFTPD is running …
any idea why Virtualmin is not detecting it

23

You may want to try stopping and restarting the service – it’s possible it somehow got out of sync with Virtualmin.

-Eric

24

Thank you for your reply Eric
I have stopped and restarted proFTPD many times already without luck.
Is there any other way to get the sync running.

Kirk

25

Hey,

I have a similar problem.
Up to a short while ago (2 hours ago) the FTPD still worked, now it doesn’t.
Can’t start it. It’s not running, but there are some curious things …

the proftpd --configtest command prints this:
Checking syntax of configuration file

  • warning: unable to determine IP address of ‘server1.mydomain.be’
  • warning: unable to determine IP address of ‘server1.mydomain.be’
  • ProFTPD terminating (signal 11)
  • FTP session closed.
    Segmentation fault

I found a post telling me it might be a problem with the DNS, so I added an A record for server1.mydomain.be to the IP of the server.

The /var/log/messages tells me this:
May 1 17:19:30 server1 kernel: proftpd[3832]: segfault at 0000000000000068 rip 0000000000465324 rsp 00007fffb2ccc590 error 4

Any ideas?

26

Ok, I solved it.
The DNS on the server itself still needed to be updated. After doing this, I could start immediately :slight_smile:

27

Yeah, you would want to make sure that your hostname is listed in /etc/hosts along with your IP address.

However, you shouldn’t be seeing kernel segfaults when ProFTPd is starting, that indicates a really odd problem :slight_smile:

Are you by chance low on RAM? That can sometimes cause strange issues. Some VPS’s can cause strange issues if you don’t have enough dedicated RAM.

-Eric

28

Oops, your reply came in while I was typing… glad you got it straightened out!

-Eric

29

I don’t know how, but I had to follow the steps. "No logs after failed trying to start proftpd…

Thanks

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My Error:

[root@datalawn ~]# proftpd --configtest
Checking syntax of configuration file
2017-11-04 09:09:20,180 datalawn.datalawn.com proftpd[9463]: processing configur ation directory ‘/etc/proftpd/conf.d’
2017-11-04 09:09:20,180 datalawn.datalawn.com proftpd[9463]: mod_dso/0.5: unable to load ‘mod_tls.c’; check to see if ‘/usr/libexec/proftpd/mod_tls.la’ exists
2017-11-04 09:09:20,180 datalawn.datalawn.com proftpd[9463]: mod_dso/0.5: module ‘mod_tls.c’ already loaded
2017-11-04 09:09:20,180 datalawn.datalawn.com proftpd[9463]: fatal: TLSRSACertif icateFile: ‘/etc/pki/tls/certs/proftpd.pem’ does not exist on line 8 of ‘/etc/pr oftpd/conf.d/virtualmin.conf’

I installed/provided SSL to ProFTPD and it started

After ProFTPD started,

[root@datalawn ~]# proftpd --configtest
Checking syntax of configuration file
2017-11-04 09:19:17,104 datalawn.datalawn.com proftpd[11448]: processing configuration directory ‘/etc/proftpd/conf.d’
2017-11-04 09:19:17,104 datalawn.datalawn.com proftpd[11448]: mod_dso/0.5: unable to load ‘mod_tls.c’; check to see if ‘/usr/libexec/proftpd/mod_tls.la’ exists
2017-11-04 09:19:17,104 datalawn.datalawn.com proftpd[11448]: mod_dso/0.5: module ‘mod_tls.c’ already loaded
Syntax check complete.

I still see an error regarding mod_tls.c. Maybe someone would enlighten me on that.
But I am glad proftpd is back up and running.
I Was also able to connnect/test using openssl s_client -connect localhost:21 -starttls ftp
 on the machine via SSH.

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This worked for me. Thank you for the information!