[ubuntu-za] Anonymous ftp on my server

[Alf Stockton]

I am following the howto at 
http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-server-ubuntu8.04-lts-p6
to get proftp working at my server but I get the following messages when I 
attempt to start proftp:-


/etc/init.d/proftpd start
  * Stopping ftp server proftpd 
                                          [ OK ]
  * Starting ftp server proftpd 
                                                  - notice: unable to bind to 
Unix domain socket at '/var/run/proftpd/test.sock': Address already in use
  - notice: unable to listen to local socket: Operation not permitted
  - warning: the DisplayFirstChdir directive is deprecated and will be removed 
in a future release.  Please use the DisplayChdir directive.
localhost.localdomain - PRIVS_ROOT: unable to seteuid(): Operation not permitted
localhost.localdomain - PRIVS_ROOT: unable to setegid(): Operation not permitted
localhost.localdomain - PRIVS_RELINQUISH: unable to seteuid(PR_ROOT_UID): 
Operation not permitted
localhost.localdomain - PRIVS_RELINQUISH: unable to setegid(session.gid): 
Operation not permitted
localhost.localdomain - PRIVS_RELINQUISH: unable to seteuid(session.uid): 
Operation not permitted
localhost.localdomain - mod_delay/0.6: error opening DelayTable 
'/var/run/proftpd/proftpd.delay': No such file or directory
localhost.localdomain - PRIVS_ROOT: unable to seteuid(): Operation not permitted
localhost.localdomain - PRIVS_ROOT: unable to setegid(): Operation not permitted
localhost.localdomain - PRIVS_RELINQUISH: unable to seteuid(PR_ROOT_UID): 
Operation not permitted
localhost.localdomain - PRIVS_RELINQUISH: unable to setegid(session.gid): 
Operation not permitted
localhost.localdomain - PRIVS_RELINQUISH: unable to seteuid(session.uid): 
Operation not permitted
localhost.localdomain - notice: unable to listen to local socket: No such file 
or directory
localhost.localdomain - unable to set daemon groups: Operation not permitted
localhost.localdomain - unable to set uid to 65534, current uid: 1000

Suggestions please.

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Regards,
Alf Stockton		www.stockton.co.za

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