Pure-FTPD will not start - Help Please

Hi guys, i'm new to this so any help would be appriciated.

I cant seem to start pure-ftpd. I tried restarting the service in WHM but it doesn't seem to come up. I also tried checking the service status in SSH by typing "service pure-ftpd status" it comes back with stopped. I also tried before that "ftp localhsot" which is permission denied. Does anybody know how to fix this problem or what might be going on?

Regards
James

 

Yeh, I have tried by shell to start and restart but it still says that its offline. I dont know how to check the logs for it.

Thanks
James

 

Hi
That didn't work. It came back with the following. Any help would be greatly appriciated! I'm tearing my hair out and about to reformat the box!!! lol!

root@wty [~]# /scripts/ftpup --force
Ftp Setup Script Version 6.0
Fetching version information from http://updates.cpanel.net/ftpinstall/version (RELEASE)....Fetching http://updates.cpanel.net/ftpinstall/version (0)....@69.90.250.36......connected......receiving...100%......Done
Done
This is the pure-ftpd 1.0.20 installer release number 17.tls for platform fedora 5
ftp://mirror.newnanutilities.org/pub/fedora/linux/extras/5/i386/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum
Trying other mirror.
http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/fedora.redhat/linux/extras/5/i386/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum
Trying other mirror.
http://ftp.gui.uva.es/sites/fedora.redhat.com/extras/5/i386/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum
Trying other mirror.
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Excluding Packages in global exclude list
Finished
Parsing package install arguments
Nothing to do
Resetting pure-ftpd to cPanel Defaults and Installing the Latest Version
Fetching http://diff.cpanel.net/ftpinstall/pure-ftpd/fedora/5/pure-ftpd-1.0.20-17.tls.i386.rpm (0)....@69.72.164.155......connected......receiving...1%...3%...5%...7%...9%...11%...13%...15%...17%...19%...21%...23%...25%...27%...29%...31%...33%...35%...37%...38%...40%...42%...44%...46%...48%...50%...52%...54%...56%...58%...60%...62%...64%...66%...68%...70%...72%...74%...75%...77%...79%...81%...83%...85%...87%...89%...91%...93%...95%...97%...99%...100%......Done
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
1:pure-ftpd ########################################### [100%]
req [options] <infile >outfile
where options are
-inform arg input format - DER or PEM
-outform arg output format - DER or PEM
-in arg input file
-out arg output file
-text text form of request
-pubkey output public key
-noout do not output REQ
-verify verify signature on REQ
-modulus RSA modulus
-nodes don't encrypt the output key
-engine e use engine e, possibly a hardware device
-subject output the request's subject
-passin private key password source
-key file use the private key contained in file
-keyform arg key file format
-keyout arg file to send the key to
-rand file:file:...
load the file (or the files in the directory) into
the random number generator
-newkey rsa:bits generate a new RSA key of 'bits' in size
-newkey dsa:file generate a new DSA key, parameters taken from CA in 'file'
-[digest] Digest to sign with (md5, sha1, md2, mdc2, md4)
-config file request template file.
-subj arg set or modify request subject
-multivalue-rdn enable support for multivalued RDNs
-new new request.
-batch do not ask anything during request generation
-x509 output a x509 structure instead of a cert. req.
-days number of days a certificate generated by -x509 is valid for.
-set_serial serial number to use for a certificate generated by -x509.
-newhdr output "NEW" in the header lines
-asn1-kludge Output the 'request' in a format that is wrong but some CA's
have been reported as requiring
-extensions .. specify certificate extension section (override value in config file)
-reqexts .. specify request extension section (override value in config file)
-utf8 input characters are UTF8 (default ASCII)
-nameopt arg - various certificate name options
-reqopt arg - various request text options

chmod: cannot access `/etc/ssl/private/*.pem': No such file or directory
Waiting for ftpserver to restart..............finished.


ftpserver has failed, please contact the sysadmin.
Waiting for ftpserver to restart..............finished.


ftpserver has failed, please contact the sysadmin.
Install Complete

 

Thank You very very much. It workded! I am very happy, I wont have to reformat afterall (allthough that wouldn't have done any good lol)

Thanks again
James