Problems with compiling Proftpd from scratch

[Telfon]

Hi there,

Recently I've had some issues with my Proftpd installation so I decided to perform a clean install using this guide: http://help.directadmin.com/item.php?id=82

I erased Proftpd and started this installation:

wget http://files.directadmin.com/services/customapache/proftpd-1.3.3f.tar.gz
tar xvzf proftpd-1.3.3f.tar.gz
cd proftpd-1.3.3f
install_user=ftp install_group=ftp ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/run --mandir=/usr/local/man --without-pam --disable-auth-pam --enable-nls --with-modules=mod_ratio:mod_readme:mod_tls LDFLAGS=-static
make
make install

When I try to "make" I get the following error:

odules/mod_auth.o modules/mod_ls.o modules/mod_log.o modules/mod_site.o modules/mod_delay.o modules/mod_facts.o modules/mod_ident.o modules/mod_tls.o modules/mod_readme.o modules/mod_ratio.o modules/mod_cap.o modules/mod_lang.o modules/module_glue.o -L/home/admin/proftpd-1.3.4b/lib -lsupp -ldl -L/home/admin/proftpd-1.3.4b/lib/libcap -lcap -lssl -lcrypto
modules/mod_auth_unix.o: In function `pw_check':
mod_auth_unix.c.text+0x849): undefined reference to `crypt'
modules/mod_auth_file.o: In function `authfile_chkpass':
mod_auth_file.c.text+0x30): undefined reference to `crypt'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [proftpd] Fout 1

I already put over 3 hours in fixing this problem so it's starting to make me crazy!

I'm not that skilled when it comes to compiling so keep that in mind ..

Any help is really really appreciated! Thanks in advance!

 

[zEitEr]

Hello,

Try to remove

LDFLAGS=-static

from ./configure line.

 

[zEitEr]

By the way you could do it more friendly way:

cd /usr/local/directadmin/custombuild
./build set proftpd yes
./build update
./build proftpd

 

[Telfon]

Thanks for your reply! Removing LDFLAGS=-static worked!

But:

I tried both your options and it seems that it doesn't write anything to /etc/init.d/ so it keeps saying:

[root@www custombuild]# service proftpd restart
proftpd: unknown service

Any thoughts?

 

[Telfon]

This is what a whereis proftpd results:

[root@www custombuild]# whereis proftpd
proftpd: /usr/src/proftpd-1.3.4a/proftpd.spec /usr/src/proftpd-1.3.4a/proftpd.pc /usr/src/proftpd-1.3.4a/proftpd /usr/sbin/proftpd /etc/proftpd.passwd /etc/proftpd.conf /usr/lib/proftpd /usr/local/sbin/proftpd /usr/local/etc/proftpd.conf /usr/local/lib/proftpd /usr/include/proftpd /usr/share/man/man8/proftpd.8

 

[zEitEr]

cp /usr/local/directadmin/custombuild/proftpd /etc/init.d/

that should do the trick. Just make sure then, you've got it in autostart.

 

[Telfon]

Thank you so much! It's working again!

At first I got this error:

Starting proftpd: - Fatal: ScoreboardFile: : unable to use '/var/run/proftpd/proftpd.pid': No such file or directory on line 13 of '/etc/proftpd.conf'

I fixed this with the command:

mkdir /var/run/proftpd

Cheers!