proftpd problem

mouse46 · 10-03-2004, 06:03 PM

Hello,

I am trying to install proftpd using the tutorial on this site. But I have got stuck when doing this

Code:

$ /orange/proftpd-1.2.10/proftpd -c /orange/proftpd-1.2.10/sample-configurations/basic.conf

I do this so that when proftpd runs it will call upon the basic.conf file. But when doing this the following appears.

Code:

-bash: /orange/proftpd-1.2.10/proftpd: No such file or directory

What am I doing wrong?

BTW: the tutorial is here proftpd tut

Thank you for your help

serz · 10-03-2004, 06:53 PM

What are the contents of the /orange directory?

mouse46 · 10-03-2004, 07:05 PM

/orange is on a separate hard drive sdb1. It has all the proftpd files/folders plus a couple of ripped albums of mine.

folders are:
bin
etc
man
proftpd-1.2.10
sbin
var
music

mouse46 · 10-04-2004, 07:33 AM

*bump*

Mara · 10-04-2004, 02:44 PM

Moved to Linux-Software, as requested.

It looks that you don't have an executable or it has no 'execute' permission set. What do you get when you run
ls -l /orange/proftpd-1.2.10|grep proftpd

mouse46 · 10-04-2004, 06:07 PM

I get this

-rw-r--r-- 1 yellowmonkey yellowmonkey 10289 Sep 4 19:50 proftpd.spec

mouse46 · 10-05-2004, 08:40 AM

Could I chmod/chown this executable so that is has the correct permissions?

How important is this step anyway?

mouse46 · 10-05-2004, 09:03 AM

there is a proftpd executable in /orange/sbin/proftpd can i use this one?

Mara · 10-05-2004, 04:39 PM

What you get is not an executable. Could you please write how you installed it (I'm especially interested which kind of archive it wasinstalled from)?

mouse46 · 10-05-2004, 08:20 PM

okay I got this to work. I used

/orange/sbin/proftpd -c /orange/proftpd-1.2.10/sample-configurations/basic.conf#

For some reason my executable was in sbin, perhaps a change from 1.2.8 to 1.2.10??

I installed it from a tar.gz. I could have used an rpm or a cvs but it was the first one I found

Thanks for your help it is much appreciated

Mara · 10-06-2004, 12:37 PM

I just wasn't sure if you have installed from .tar.gz or from .src.rpm. In the second case you'd need to build it before using.
Nice to hear that it works.