Pureftpd startup issues.

please check the port 21 is open.

#telnet localhost 21

 

I'm surprised why one of the mods havent yet commented on this post and advised you not to expect so much from a community forum. It is usually considered rude behaviour when you bump your posts this way.

Now about your problem....

I've seen a similar problem, it turned out to be an APF problem. An update/reinstall of the same might help you (if you have APF installed), but do proceed with caution when doing so and it is always recommended to seek help from your provider if you have managed services or seek some experts assistance for such tasks.

 

As well, when you mention that your server resets, am I correct in assuming that this was/is not a graceful shutdown and restart?

All that is done when executing the restart feature for nearly every service is the service is stopped and started.

So, my guess would be that if your server overloaded and shutdown, the pid files were not removed prior to reboot resulting in a failure for the service to start.

Not to worry, cpanel monitors your services and will restart down services automagically when they are detected. Will this happen immediately upon boot? No. But, it will (should) happen as soon as the service monitor detects the problem.

If these are graceful shutdowns and pure is not starting properly, then definately log a ticket with your data center and they can investigate/log a ticket with cpanel.

If not, I would (personally) be more concerned with the reason why the server is resetting or needs to be reset.

 

As a workaround you could put a restart into /etc/rc.d/rc.local if you have that file was that is the last file to be run during the boot sequence. Just add the following to the end:

/etc/init.d/pure-ftpd restart