Date:  Fri, 2 Mar 2007 18:24:31 -0600
From:  "Gerald Waugh" <gwaugh (at mark) frontstreetnetworks.com>
Subject:  [coba-e:08976] Re: /var/lock/subsys/proftpd': Read-only file system
To:  <coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org>
Message-Id:  <057501c75d2a$50d31990$0601a8c0@systemax>
In-Reply-To:  <45E8AD8A.4000602 (at mark) ontarioweb.ca>
X-Mail-Count: 08976

You wrote;
> 
 Hello everyone,
> Today I had an power outage that the battery backups where 
> not able to 
> keep all the BQ servers running.
> 
> I now have a name server that is reporting "The FTP server is 
> not running", I have tried to restart from CLI and GUI and no luck.
> 
>  #> proftpd -n -d9
> [root@ns1 log]# proftpd -n -d9
> 
> ns1.domain.com - opening scoreboard 
> '/var/run/proftpd/proftpd.scoreboard'
> ns1.domain.com - RELINQUISH PRIVS at main.c:2262
> ns1.domain.com - error opening scoreboard: Read-only file system
> 
> 
> [root (at mark) ns1 log]# /etc/init.d/proftpd restart
> Shutting down proftpd:                                     [FAILED]
> Starting proftpd:                                          [  OK  ]
> touch: cannot touch `/var/lock/subsys/proftpd': Read-only file system
> 
> Any help would be appreciated as I am nervous to reboot

Are you not running proftpd from xinetd???
Which is the standard method...
If so;
	/etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd restart

Gerald


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