> I need some help getting the ftp to restart. Tryed to turn it off and on, and
> reboot.
Are you certain it is not working? It runs via xinetd so I assume spawns proftpd
processes when connections are requested. Restart xinetd by:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd restart
If you are going by the "Active Monitor" in the BQ gui stating FTP server is down, do
check by connecting via FTP to it first before assuming it's down. By coincidence I got
that message from active monitor today - but it was due to "Hostname Lookups" being
turned on and the nameserver used by that box being down so no lookups could be done,
so it reported it as down - connecting via IP however proved it was indeed workign
perfectly - deselecting "Hostname Lookups" for the FTP server returned active monitor
to green state.
> What logs or what can I look for.
I've always wondered about this as although there is a dir in /var/log/ for "proftpd"
is a permanently empty and always has been - this is true from Brians ISO 2.5 >
current. No clue as to why.
So basic connection info is logged to /var/log/message and also /var/log/secure - but
very little of debugging use.
Hopefully someone more apt will respond with more complete help.
Good luck.
Brett