"nohup" failing on me?

Mass Zero · 04-27-2009, 07:15 PM

Here I am with another question~

I'm running Pure-FTPd on my VPS, but every time I close the remote terminal, Pure-FTPd stops. I've tried running it as nohup /usr/sbin/pure-ftpd -j -l puredb:/etc/pure-ftpd/pureftpd.pdb &, but it seems the nohup's failing for me, because Pure-FTPd still quits on me when I close the terminal.

What am I doing wrong here?

chrism01 · 04-27-2009, 09:10 PM

Usually services like ftp are initiated using

service <servicename> start

either by the boot sequence or by root manually.
Actually, Centos comes with vsftp, which might be easier than adding another one, unless you really prefer pure-ftp.

Looks like your cmd should work; have you checked log files eg /var/log/messages and presumably pure-ftp has its own logfile?

Mass Zero · 04-28-2009, 06:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chrism01

Usually services like ftp are initiated using

service <servicename> start

either by the boot sequence or by root manually.
Actually, Centos comes with vsftp, which might be easier than adding another one, unless you really prefer pure-ftp.

Looks like your cmd should work; have you checked log files eg /var/log/messages and presumably pure-ftp has its own logfile?

service pure-ftpd start works, but I need the options -j -l puredb:/etc/pure-ftpd/pureftpd.pdb enabled, else I can't log into the FTP server. (It enables virtual accounts.) And I don't see how I can add them, when starting the service like that.

Also, my messages and pureftpd logfiles are completely empty, so there's nothing really interesting I can find in there.

As for vsftpd... It doesn't look like it's pre-installed. I could also be very blind, of course. find and whereis couldn't locate it.

colucix · 04-28-2009, 07:19 AM

You have to edit the file /etc/pure-ftpd/pure-ftpd.conf and enable the switches there. For example uncomment the following lines that correspond to the -j and the -l option respectively:

Code:

CreateHomeDir               yes
PureDB                      /etc/pure-ftpd/pureftpd.pdb

Then start the service as suggested by chrism01 above. Hope this helps.

Mass Zero · 04-28-2009, 07:38 AM

You guys are saviors, it works. Thanks a bunch!