Bug 235591 – net-ftp/proftpd-1.3.1_rc2-r3 - "please fix your configuration file" using /etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf.distrib

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Jakub Kaláb 2008-08-24 04:59:25 UTC]

Crashes when starting the service (/etc/init.d/proftpd start):
 * Checking proftpd configuration ...
 * Configuration error: please fix your configuration file (/etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf).
But i just made a clean install and copied the /etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf.distrib to /etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge proftpd
2. copy /etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf.distrib to /etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf
3. start the server (/etc/init.d/proftpd start)

Actual Results:  
 * Checking proftpd configuration ...
 * Configuration error: please fix your configuration file (/etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf).

Expected Results:  
start the server and dont complain about the default conf file

[Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2008-08-25 00:40:50 UTC]

Does it help to use /etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf.sample instead?

[Comment 2 Jakub Kaláb 2008-08-31 07:15:52 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Does it help to use /etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf.sample instead?
> 

It doesn't, i can put there anything and it still outputs the same. but i use the ~x86 version now and it works fine.

[Comment 3 Peter Grasch 2008-09-19 13:53:00 UTC]

I just ran into the same problem (but with proftpd-1.3.1 final) and just wanted to let you know that I fixed it by adding the hostname of the machine to /etc/hosts (apparently I forgot to do that earlier).

If you ran into a similar error and can't figure, start proftpd directly (by entering "proftpd" instead of using the init-script) because you will get to see the error message instead of the unhelpful "please fix your configuration file".

[Comment 4 Bernard Cafarelli 2009-02-17 22:12:28 UTC]

Init script shows configuration errors now, and sample configuration was updated in 1.3.2-r1 ebuild. Thanks for your patience