The Perfect Server - CentOS 5.5 x86_64 [ISPConfig 3] - Issues

[Aradan]

Hi all,
This being my first post, I'd like to say Hello to everyone, your HowTo Guides and Forum posts have been very valuable to me in learning setting up a Linux VPS I have rented ready for a business venture me and my wife intend to take.

After messing about with pre-setup LAMP installations (ie. XAMPP), I decided to try at configuring and setting up the server myself ( I do have a lot of knowledge with setting things up and learn pretty fast ).

I followed a few HowTo guides but when I came accross;
The Perfect Server - CentOS 5.5 x86_64 [ISPConfig 3]
I thought, 'Yeah, that looks like what I might be looking for in a server right now'. So, I followed the HowTo but came accross some issues which I have sorted some out (which where mainly my own miss-spellings, heh!) but, when I got this section in the HowTo on page 5, I am quite stumped;

16 Install PureFTPd
PureFTPd can be installed with the following command:

yum install pure-ftpd

Then create the system startup links and start PureFTPd:

chkconfig --levels 235 pure-ftpd on
/etc/init.d/pure-ftpd start

Everything installs fine, but when it comes to me trying to start pure-ftpd I am presented with the following un-helpfull message;

Starting pure-ftpd:                                        [FAILED]

Now, after reading HowTo guides on Pure-FTPd and comments in the forums I am assuming that I may have to compile a Pure-Ftpd RPM file for myself for CentOS 5.5 x86_64?

Could someone please point me in the right direction or if I am in-deed just missing something or that I may have messed a step up in the previous sections of the guide (which I do not beleave to be true so far now).

Many thanks,
-Aradan

[falko]

Is this an OpenVZ or Virtuozze VPS?

What's the output of

cat /proc/user_beancounters

?

Is SELinux disabled? Any errors in your logs?

[piseth]

Hi All friend,

I have problem the same ask him,

I'm using VPS of OpenVZ OS Centos 5

Here is my erorr log of Pure-ftpd

Jul 9 05:37:28 server pure-ftpd: (?@?) [ERROR] Unable to switch capabilities : Operation not permitted
Jul 9 05:38:39 server clamd[18015]: SelfCheck: Database status OK.
Jul 9 05:41:49 server pure-ftpd: (?@?) [ERROR] Unable to switch capabilities : Operation not permitted

here is the log of
cat /proc/user_beancounters

[root@server log]# cat /proc/user_beancounters
Version: 2.5
uid resource held maxheld barrier limit failcnt
54899: kmemsize 17076698 21604685 2147483646 2147483646 0
lockedpages 0 8 999999 999999 0
privvmpages 128635 177959 524288 524288 0
shmpages 8965 10309 131072 131072 0
dummy 0 0 0 0 0
numproc 56 83 999999 999999 0
physpages 68957 88253 0 2147483647 0
vmguarpages 0 0 131072 2147483647 0
oomguarpages 68958 88254 131072 2147483647 0
numtcpsock 24 43 7999992 7999992 0
numflock 7 12 999999 999999 0
numpty 1 3 500000 500000 0
numsiginfo 0 10 999999 999999 0
tcpsndbuf 420096 906392 214748160 396774400 0
tcprcvbuf 393216 2096912 214748160 396774400 0
othersockbuf 246768 305432 214748160 396774400 0
dgramrcvbuf 0 16944 214748160 396774400 0
numothersock 144 177 7999992 7999992 0
dcachesize 0 0 2147483646 2147483646 0
numfile 1837 2633 23999976 23999976 0
dummy 0 0 0 0 0
dummy 0 0 0 0 0
dummy 0 0 0 0 0
numiptent 14 14 999999 999999 0
[root@server log]#

[falko]

Originally Posted by piseth

Hi All friend,

I have problem the same ask him,

I'm using VPS of OpenVZ OS Centos 5

Here is my erorr log of Pure-ftpd

Jul 9 05:37:28 server pure-ftpd: (?@?) [ERROR] Unable to switch capabilities : Operation not permitted
Jul 9 05:38:39 server clamd[18015]: SelfCheck: Database status OK.
Jul 9 05:41:49 server pure-ftpd: (?@?) [ERROR] Unable to switch capabilities : Operation not permitted

If you don't have root access to the host system, you must rebuild PureFTPd, as shown somewhere else in this forum. Unfortunately I can't tell you how this works on CentOS as the instructions are for Debian/Ubuntu, so you might have to play around with this a bit.

[Aradan]

Hi falko,
thanks for reply.

The VPS is on OpenVZ

I can not seem to find any errors in the logs relating to pure-ftpd

here is the out put for cat command

Version: 2.5
       uid  resource                     held              maxheld              barrier                limit              failcnt
     4650:  kmemsize                  6631656              7228470           2147483646           2147483646                    0
            lockedpages                     0                    0               999999               999999                    0
            privvmpages                  6532                20330               262144               262144                    0
            shmpages                      688                  720               131072               131072                    0
            dummy                           0                    0                    0                    0                    0
            numproc                        19                   23               999999               999999                    0
            physpages                    3326                 4682                    0           2147483647                    0
            vmguarpages                     0                    0               131072           2147483647                    0
            oomguarpages                 3327                 4683               131072           2147483647                    0
            numtcpsock                      5                    6              7999992              7999992                    0
            numflock                        3                    4               999999               999999                    0
            numpty                          1                    1               500000               500000                    0
            numsiginfo                      0                    2               999999               999999                    0
            tcpsndbuf                   89848                89848            214748160            396774400                    0
            tcprcvbuf                   81920                    0            214748160            396774400                    0
            othersockbuf                 6984                24592            214748160            396774400                    0
            dgramrcvbuf                     0                 8472            214748160            396774400                    0
            numothersock                    6                   19              7999992              7999992                    0
            dcachesize                 293907               316443           2147483646           2147483646                    0
            numfile                       467                  556             23999976             23999976                    0
            dummy                           0                    0                    0                    0                    0
            dummy                           0                    0                    0                    0                    0
            dummy                           0                    0                    0                    0                    0
            numiptent                      14                   14               999999               999999                    0

and SELinux isn't running or installed as far as I can tell.

Thanks.

[damir]

Here is a guide how to install pure-ftpd on OpenVZ with CentOS installed:

http://achmadz.blogspot.com/2009/08/...centos-53.html

[piseth]

Hi,

Damir, I follow that instruction. But I found other instruction the same this but it work for me. It is deferenct configuration.

Aradan,

Please read this
tail -n 200 /var/log/messages | grep ftp

If you see the error message same ask below:

pure-ftpd: (?@?) [ERROR] Unable to switch capabilities : Operation not permitted

please:

cd /tmp
wget http://download.pureftpd.org/pub/pur...-1.0.29.tar.gz

tar -xvzf pure-ftpd-1.0.22.tar.gz

cd pure-ftpd-1.0.22

./configure --without-capabilities --with-virtualchroot --with‐mysql --with-pam --with-altlog --with-wrapper --with-mysql --with-cookie --with-throttling --withratios --with-paranoidmsg --with-quotas

make

make install

after that
/etc/init.d/pure-ftpd start

I think it should be OK