ProFTPD woes... please help!

[mno]

Hi all,

I have recently installed ProFTPD and yesterday, even managed to connect. Today, for some weird reason, I found that pure-ftpd, which came pre-installed, kicked in and messed everything up.

I'm relatively new to Linux, so I'm not sure of how I can get rid of pure-ftpd. Also, what do I need to do to properly start ProFTPD?

Thanks for your help,
mno

[Dagda]

don't get rid of Pure-ftpd, use it and get rid of proftpd

[posterboy]

I'm not familiar with "pure-ftpd", however, something is starting it, and that will surely make a mess when Pro-ftpd tries. As root, in a term, try chkconfig --list. Chkconfig will allow you to set up the runlevel at which that starts, and you likely want none. My experience with Proftpd is limited to using it as a standalone, but there are many compile time options, as these are selected I have cranked it up from rc.local, and it runs fine. I'm open 24X7, try it out. GL, Ray

[mno]

Hi all,

Thanks for your help. I have receveid an email from a ProFTPD user who said that he would be able to help me work out its issues so now pure-ftpd is gone. I'm still having problems getting ProFTPD to use the username/password combinations that I use to login to Linux. Any suggestions?

Oh btw: Pro-FTPD is running standalone at this point.