On Sat, Jun 03, 2006 at 12:39:14PM -0300, CruX wrote: > > > Once added at install, proftpd scripts can only --enable|--disable it. > > > If a ftp line was not there (commented out just in case with an #<off> > > > prefix) it has been removed by > > > someone or by another package. I doubt this is an issue of proftpd. > > Hi Francesco: sorry if I misplaced a bug, but I still have a doubt. You > say the FTP service line in inetd.conf is not created by proftpd?? If it
I said _once installed_. That is that line is created at configuration time and NEVER removed. If you missed that line, it was not removed by proftpd... > isn't then probably it should, as the /etc/init.d/proftpd script greps > that file for "/usr/sbin/proftpd". Maybe I'm missing something here, but > how does this work on a new system?? I suspect inetd is installed by > default, and I guess it cannot create a proftpd line in its config file > since the user may choose another ftp server. Then if I installed > proftpd is the user supposed to create that line? Sorry again but it > took me a while to find out that that was the error, since the > init.d/proftpd script kept telling to check the configuration. If for > some good reason I don't know the scripts can't create that line maybe > the startup script message can be a little more informative by saying: > "ProFTPd warning: cannot start neither in standalone nor in inetd/xinetd > mode. Check your _inetd/xinetd_ configuration." > > -- > ,??¯`. > - CruX - : (` ; Debian > Sebastián Cruz `. `?? GNU/Linux > `· > Jabber: crux @ lugmen . org . ar > GPG FP: 6612 409C BFC9 43F8 51E5 8420 0C06 CF38 402A F32B > -- Francesco P. Lovergine
