On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 06:24:33PM -0500, A. Khattri wrote the following: > On Sun, 23 Jan 2005, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote: > > > I have two configuration problems. > > > > One, the /etc/init.d/proftpd start-stop script only errors (e.g. [!!] > > instead of [ok]). > > What do the logs say?
Jan 23 13:56:02 joseph-a-nagy-jr proftpd[25010]: joseph-a-nagy-jr.us - Failed binding to 0.0.0.0, port 21: Address already in use Fixed that, though. It's now pointing to ftp.joseph-a-nagy-jr.us > > Two, I want to be able to login via ftp.joseph-a-nagy-jr.us, yet there is > > no option to have proftpd to listen to that url > > That's because URLs have nothing to do with proftpd configuration - its > not a web server. However, if you setup your DNS such that > ftp.joseph-a-nagy-jr.us points to your machine's IP address it will work. I know it's not a web server. I know the difference between HTTP and FTP. If you can't tell from my sig, I run several websites. If you compare their ip to this emails ip, you'll see they are the same. I have already told dns to point ftp.joseph-a-nagy-jr.us to my machine. > Configuring proftpd is pretty trivial - the only thing you need to do > normally is remove the vhost entry for the anonymous site (unless you need > that) and any other sites. After that, everything "just works". (I > recently finished setting a web server with proftpd and the proftpd part > was very simple). I find working with Apache much easier so far. ;p -- Joseph A. Nagy Jr. AIM: pres CTHULHU | ICQ: 18115568 | Yahoo: pagan_prince | Jabber: DarkKnightRadick@(jabber.org|amessage.at) Libertarian @ Large | PGP: 0xCF7EAA67 | < http://www.joseph-a-nagy-jr.us > | < http://www.jan-jr-ent.biz > < http://games.joseph-a-nagy-ur.us >
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