"The service 'pure-ftpd' on server x.box.local is currently down"

[Mezotar]

Hi,

after installation of DA, i got immediately message stated in the Title when i logged in. Never seen it. Now i'm receiving this message exactly every hour. What should i do about it? Otherwise everything seems to work..

Johny

 

[smtalk]

Please try the following in SSH and let us know the result:

service pure-ftpd restart
tail /var/log/messages

 

[Mezotar]

Please try the following in SSH and let us know the result:

service pure-ftpd restart
tail /var/log/messages

Hello

i got:

# service pure-ftpd restart
pure-ftpd: unrecognized service

# tail /var/log/messages
Feb 5 10:03:08 89237 named[8054]: error (network unreachable) resolving 'ns2.isc.ultradns.net/A/IN': 2001:502:f3ff::e8#53
Feb 5 10:03:08 89237 named[8054]: error (network unreachable) resolving 'pdns196.ultradns.biz/AAAA/IN': 2001:500:3682::12#53
Feb 5 10:03:08 89237 named[8054]: error (network unreachable) resolving 'ns1.isc.ultradns.net/A/IN': 2001:502:f3ff::e8#53
Feb 5 10:03:08 89237 named[8054]: error (network unreachable) resolving 'ns2.isc.ultradns.net/AAAA/IN': 2001:502:f3ff::e8#53
Feb 5 10:03:08 89237 named[8054]: error (network unreachable) resolving 'pdns196.ultradns.biz/A/IN': 2001:503:7bbb:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ff7e#53
Feb 5 10:03:08 89237 named[8054]: error (network unreachable) resolving 'ns1.isc.ultradns.net/AAAA/IN': 2001:502:f3ff::e8#53
Feb 5 10:03:08 89237 named[8054]: error (network unreachable) resolving 'pdns196.ultradns.biz/AAAA/IN': 2001:503:7bbb:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ff7e#53
Feb 5 10:03:08 89237 named[8054]: error (network unreachable) resolving 'pdns196.ultradns.biz/A/IN': 2001:503:e239::3:2#53
Feb 5 10:03:08 89237 named[8054]: error (network unreachable) resolving 'pdns196.ultradns.biz/AAAA/IN': 2001:503:e239::3:2#53
Feb 5 10:06:15 89237 named[8054]: client 141.212.121.187#41003: query (cache) 'www.google.com/A/IN' denied

 

[smtalk]

You seem to be running proftpd instead of pure-ftpd. Just do the following to fix it:

perl -pi -e 's/pure-ftpd/proftpd/' /usr/local/directadmin/data/admin/services.status
service proftpd restart

 

[Mezotar]

Ok, did that. Will see if it helped...which i guess it did. Thank you