ProFTPd errors

[tlsuess]

Hi all,

My name's Todd and I'm having a SERIOUS ERROR with ProFTPd. Just recently I upgraded my control panel from VHCS to ispCP (a VHCS fork) and I currently run ProFTPd-mysql as my FTP server. I am really losing sleep over this situation. Right now I cannot get it to start and it won't tell me why. Here's my proftpd.conf file:
#
# ispCP OMEGA ProFTPd config file
#
#
#
# Includes required DSO modules. This is mandatory in proftpd 1.3
#
#Include /etc/proftpd/modules.conf

ServerName "xetaspace"
ServerType standalone
DeferWelcome off

ShowSymlinks on
MultilineRFC2228 on
DefaultServer on
ShowSymlinks on
AllowOverwrite on
UseReverseDNS off
IdentLookups off
AllowStoreRestart on
AllowForeignAddress on

LogFormat traff "%b %u"

TimeoutNoTransfer 600
TimeoutStalled 600
TimeoutIdle 1200

DisplayLogin welcome.msg
DisplayFirstChdir message

#LsDefaultOptions "-l"

DenyFilter \*.*/

DefaultRoot ~

# Uncomment this if you are using NIS or LDAP to retrieve passwords:
#PersistentPasswd off

# Port 21 is the standard FTP port.

Port 21

# To prevent DoS attacks, set the maximum number of child processes
# to 30. If you need to allow more than 30 concurrent connections
# at once, simply increase this value. Note that this ONLY works
# in standalone mode, in inetd mode you should use an inetd server
# that allows you to limit maximum number of processes per service
# (such as xinetd)

MaxInstances 30

# Set the user and group that the server normally runs at.

User nobody
Group nogroup

# Normally, we want files to be overwriteable.

<Directory /*>
# Umask 022 is a good standard umask to prevent new files and dirs
# (second parm) from being group and world writable.
Umask 022 022

AllowOverwrite on
HideNoAccess on

</Directory>

<Limit ALL>
IgnoreHidden on
</Limit>

<Global>
RootLogin off
TransferLog /var/log/proftpd/xferlog
ExtendedLog /var/log/proftpd/ftp_traff.log read,write traff
PathDenyFilter "\.quota$"
</Global>

#
# ISPCP Managment;
#
#SQLBackend mysql # enable for proFTPd >= 1.3
SQLAuthTypes Crypt
SQLAuthenticate on
SQLConnectInfo ispcp@localhost vftp ********
SQLUserInfo ftp_users userid passwd uid gid homedir shell
SQLGroupInfo ftp_group groupname gid members
SQLMinID 2000

#
# ISPCP Quota management;
#

QuotaEngine on
QuotaShowQuotas on
QuotaDisplayUnits Mb

SQLNamedQuery get-quota-limit SELECT "name, quota_type, per_session, limit_type, bytes_in_avail, bytes_out_avail, bytes_xfer_avail, files_in_avail, files_out_avail, files_xfer_avail FROM quotalimits WHERE name = '%{0}' AND quota_type = '%{1}'"
SQLNamedQuery get-quota-tally SELECT "name, quota_type, bytes_in_used, bytes_out_used, bytes_xfer_used, files_in_used, files_out_used, files_xfer_used FROM quotatallies WHERE name = '%{0}' AND quota_type = '%{1}'"
SQLNamedQuery update-quota-tally UPDATE "bytes_in_used = bytes_in_used + %{0}, bytes_out_used = bytes_out_used + %{1}, bytes_xfer_used = bytes_xfer_used + %{2}, files_in_used = files_in_used + %{3}, files_out_used = files_out_used + %{4}, files_xfer_used = files_xfer_used + %{5} WHERE name = '%{6}' AND quota_type = '%{7}'" quotatallies
SQLNamedQuery insert-quota-tally INSERT "%{0}, %{1}, %{2}, %{3}, %{4}, %{5}, %{6}, %{7}" quotatallies

QuotaLock /var/run/proftpd/tally.lock
QuotaLimitTable sql:/get-quota-limit
QuotaTallyTable sql:/get-quota-tally/update-quota-tally/insert-quota-tally

I tried removing and reinstalling ProFTPd with apt-get and still nothing works. I purged the config files and nothing at all. What really drives me up the wall is that when I run "/etc/init.d/proftpd start" it tells me it's starting but doesn't start. And there is nothing logged either! It's driving me insane. Please help! Any help is appreciated!

Thanks,
Todd

[falko]

Did you check all log files?
What's the output of netstat -tap?
Have you tried to manually run the command from the init script that actually starts Proftpd? I guess it will throw an error.

[rul3z]

Can u give me the output of these commands:

First
proftpd -t

then
proftpd -n -c /etc/proftpd.conf

finally
proftpd -d 5