proftpd shutdown but no restart

[jmroth]

Hi there,
it happened to me 2 or 3 times now that proftp just shut down at 23:59 without ever coming back up. Thankfully there's nagios...

Oct 24 23:59:02 matrix proftpd[4668]: localhost.localdomain - ProFTPD 1.2.10 standalone mode SHUTDOWN

Regards,
Marc

[till]

If you run:

/etc/init.d/proftp restart

and

/etc/init.d/proftp stop
/etc/init.d/proftp start

does proftpd come up properly again? (The script might be named proftpd on your system).

[jmroth]

Yeah sure it sometimes just takes a moment when doing a restart, maybe I'll troubleshoot that. As I said, nothing too bad here, just 2 or 3 times it didn't work in the last 6 months...

# date; /etc/init.d/proftpd restart; date             
Wed Oct 25 11:31:10 CEST 2006
Restarting ProFTPD ftp daemon.proftpd.
.. - setting default address to 127.0.0.1
proftpd.
 done.
Wed Oct 25 11:31:45 CEST 2006

[falko]

You can check the proftpd init script. Sometimes it helps to put something like

sleep 3

in the restart section (after stop and before start).

You could also install monit, it willl start a service if it notices it's down: http://www.howtoforge.com/server_monitoring_monit_munin