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Alf Stockton
January 19th, 2009, 01:58 PM
I am following the howto at http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-server-ubuntu8.04-lts-p6
to get proftp working at my server but I get the following messages when I attempt to start proftp:-


/etc/init.d/proftpd start
* Stopping ftp server proftpd [ OK ]
* Starting ftp server proftpd - notice: unable to bind to Unix domain socket at '/var/run/proftpd/test.sock': Address already in use
- notice: unable to listen to local socket: Operation not permitted
- warning: the DisplayFirstChdir directive is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Please use the DisplayChdir directive.
localhost.localdomain - PRIVS_ROOT: unable to seteuid(): Operation not permitted
localhost.localdomain - PRIVS_ROOT: unable to setegid(): Operation not permitted

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Suggestions please.