problems w/ proftpd

[Beavis]

i am getting an error now after updating my 
kernel

the ftpd deamon says: - 
Fatal: Group: Unknown group 'root':

therefore the service doesn't start


any suggestion before i hose down the 
system??

Re: problems w/ proftpd

[Adam Shand]

 i am getting an error now after updating my kernel
 
 the ftpd deamon says: - Fatal: Group: Unknown group 'root':
 
 therefore the service doesn't start
 any suggestion before i hose down the system??

do you have a group called root in your /etc/group file?  i'll bet $$ that
you don't (or that your /etc/group isn't readable by the user that proftpd
runs as).

heyzeus(larry)$ grep root /etc/group
root:x:0:larry

i'd be concerned about how it got removed though, that's a bad thing.

adam.

Re: problems w/ proftpd

[Pollywog]

On 07-Apr-2000 01:43:46 Adam Shand wrote:
 
 i am getting an error now after updating my kernel
 
 the ftpd deamon says: - Fatal: Group: Unknown group 'root':
 
 therefore the service doesn't start
 any suggestion before i hose down the system??
 
 do you have a group called root in your /etc/group file?  i'll bet
 $$ that
 you don't (or that your /etc/group isn't readable by the user that
 proftpd
 runs as).

I thought all Debian installations had the group root.

--
Andrew