Bug 75861 – pure-ftpd init script bug

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Eric Brown 2004-12-27 17:45:52 UTC]

try having something like SERVER="-S not.your.ip.here,21"
in conf.d/pure-ftpd

when you run start on it, it returns true, but actually the daemon doesn't start because it can't bind to that IP..


Reproducible: Always
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[Comment 1 Gustavo Felisberto (RETIRED) 2005-01-07 10:54:30 UTC]

which version you have installed?

[Comment 2 Eric Brown 2005-01-07 20:12:08 UTC]

1.0.18-r1

[Comment 3 Jedi/Sector One 2005-02-04 08:27:53 UTC]

I don't see the point of having something like SERVER="-S 192.168.0.1,21" in the default configuration file.

Very few people actually need to listen to a specific IP.

Just remove that, the server will start the way most people want it to.

Or change this to SERVER="-S 21" to just have the port in case people want to bind non-standard ports.

[Comment 4 Eric Brown 2005-02-04 15:17:43 UTC]

It's not so much the port that bothers me, but that I don't want FTP running on my other NIC.  I think a lot of people with more than one NIC would agree that it's important to have that kind of control.

Even if it's not important to you to have that control, I think if the init script says OK, the service should actually start, otherwise it's a real pain to find out when it's too late.

[Comment 5 Gustavo Felisberto (RETIRED) 2005-03-02 15:49:29 UTC]

Well the version in portage now will install a server that will bind to port 21, and there is info in the file telling the user how to bind to a particular port. Thanks to Eric and "Jedi"