PROFTPD problem

linuxsir · Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2004 6:01 pm Post subject: PROFTPD problem

after emerging proftpd, I copied the /etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf.example into /etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf and run it. btw: VCampus is my hostname

the following is what exactly happened after running
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/etc/init.d/proftpd start
* Starting proftpd...
- getaddrinfo 'VCampus' error: Name or service not known
- error: unable to determine IP address of 'VCampus'
- error: no valid servers configured
- Fatal: error processing configuration file '/etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf
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Does someone know what the problem is?
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affinity · n00b Joined: 01 Jul 2004 Posts: 66

Do you have a line like this in your /etc/hosts file?

theansaname · n00b Joined: 18 Mar 2004 Posts: 18

I have the same problem. looks like changing the hosts file to include
the hostname will let you run the program.

res06059 init.d # proftpd start
- getaddrinfo 'res06059' error: Name or service not known
- warning: unable to determine IP address of 'res06059'
- getaddrinfo 'res06059' error: Name or service not known
- warning: unable to determine IP address of 'res06059'
- ProFTPD terminating (signal 11)
- FTP session closed.
Segmentation fault

res06059 etc # hostname
res06059

res06059 etc # vi hosts

res06059 etc # more hosts
# $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-src/rc-scripts/etc/hosts,v 1.8 2003/08/04 20:12: 25 azarah Exp $

127.0.0.1 res06059 localhost

res06059 init.d # proftpd start
res06059 - fatal: Socket operation on non-socket
res06059 - (Running from command line? Use `ServerType standalone' in config file!)

res06059 init.d # vi /etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf