proftpd on 4.0F

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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 23:47:26 -0500
To: tru64-unix-managers@ornl.gov

I have a 4.0F machine that is slated for retirement but needs to run an ftp
service for at least a few more weeks or months. I wanted to add a welcome
message or banner that indicated the machine would be retired, and I seem to
recall that the Tru64 ftp daemon is not configurable to do that. If I am
wrong about that, I'd appreciate it if anyone could tell me how to add a
message and/or banner.

Proftpd has the configurable banner, and having installed it before on a
Solaris box without any trouble whatsoever, I thought it would be a good
choice, but I just can't get it to work. Not in standalone mode or inetd
mode. Either way, I get this error:

500 Sorry, no server available to handle request on localhost

The daemon runs, or is launched by inetd, but for some reason it cannot
spawn new processes. It's set up to run as nobody:nobody, although on a
lark I also tried root. I also tried using a port over 1024, and I used
netstat to see if something is in the way. Starting it as a daemon with
debugging turned on yielded no information of discernable value towards
resolving this problem.

So my question, of course, is what am I missing?

Elizabeth Harvey-Forsythe
MIT Media Lab

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