I had a working Virtualmin GPL group of domains, but upgraded to Pro to get additional (much better!) management capabilities. I have everything else working but now ProDTPD will not start; it was working prior to upgrade. Prior to upgrade, I used Qmail, but moved to Postfix to keep things simple…
Hey Mark,
What’s in the /var/log/messages when you try to start ProFTPd? That might give us a clue what’s going wrong. We don’t actually do any real configuration to ProFTPd…we just turn it on. So there’s not much that could go wrong.
May 29 20:45:28 nirvana proftpd[[8644]]: adsl-68-124-210-142.dsl.sndg02.pacbell.net - error setting IPV6_V6ONLY: Protocol not available
May 29 20:45:28 nirvana proftpd[[8644]]: adsl-68-124-210-142.dsl.sndg02.pacbell.net - Failed binding to ::, port 21: Address already in use
May 29 20:45:28 nirvana proftpd[[8644]]: adsl-68-124-210-142.dsl.sndg02.pacbell.net - Check the ServerType directive to ensure you are configured correctly.
Looks like SSH Server is running and has an sftp process that starts when I login as a domain owner…
Hey Mark,
Nope. SSH is on port 22. This is another FTP server (there is a protocol that is called FTP over SSH, but it is merely SSH with a client that makes it look like FTP).
Check to see if vsftpd is running, or some other FTP server. "netstat -p" will display a list of all open sockets including the program name that has it open. Or you could just do a "ps auxc | grep ftp" to look for any FTP server.
I just installed a clean Fedora6 on a test server with Virtualmin Pro, everything is working there. I think the best is to re-install on my primary server. I learned the lesson that changing MTA (I had qmail prior) can cause a lot of issues.