RE: [cobalt-users] ProFTPD 1.2.6

["Greg O'Lone" <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Oops. Lets try that again:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Greg O'Lone
> > Sent: Saturday, November 02, 2002 9:08 PM
> > To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [cobalt-users] ProFTPD 1.2.6
> > 
> > 
> > Anybody tried to upgrade ProFTP to 1.2.6 on a RaQ4 yet?
> > 
> > --
> > Greg O'Lone, President
> > Stretched Out Software, Inc
> > http://www.stretchedout.com
> > 
> I went and installed it on another RaQ4, but now trying to
> connect to the box, I get:
> 
> 500 FTP server shut down (going down at Sat Nov  2 22:06:01
> 2002) -- please try again later.
> 
> Being that it is now 23:00:00, I suspect that is not the
> problem. The box has been rebooted twice. Anybody run into 
> this before? Just looked in the archives and a discussion 
> about this was started but never finished on list.
> 
> Greg
> 
> 
> 

Ok so this has been a "work through it myself" kinda question, but since
I found an answer I thought I'd share it.

Three things had to happen...

First, I had to send a SIGHUP to the inetd process:

 ps -HUP `cat /var/run/inetd.pid`

Second, /sbin/reboot (as su)

Third, for some reason, the box didn't delete the /etc/shutmsg when it
restarted. 

 Rm /etc/shutmsg


All is well in the land of ProFTPd 1.2.6


BTW - it now supports turning off the reverseDNS lookups, just add this
line to your config file:

UseReverseDNS off

--
Greg



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