On Friday 22 December 2006 06:38, Ferdinando Santacroce wrote:
Well, I use proftpd.i386 -|- 1.3.0-5.1.el4.kb in standalone mode, from kbsingh repo. I tried to disable all <VirtualHost> directives, and proftpd starts well, and FTP places are correctly browsable (from local 192.168.x.x IP address). Well, now it works, but I can't understand why it stop to run... In last reboot I had 3 virtual hosts; I added in this week 3 other virtual hosts, by a simple cut&paste and a normal conf change, and I restarted the service, and it worked well. Today, after the reboot, the misterious hang... I have no time now to search in logs a possibly solution, my boss can't understand these things... I'll find time later.
From what I remember, proftpd is very picky about host names and DNS unless you tell it not to be in the config. There is usually something in the logs to the effect of "Error: could not determine IP address of your.host.name" from proftpd.
In any case, as most the responses have suggested, /var/log/messages will most likely have the cause of the failure.