FreeBSD Port: proftpd-1.2.10

[Sam Nilsson]

Michael Haro wrote:
 > I've never experienced this problem myself and never had anyone email
 > it to me or submit a problem report (thanks!).  I'm attempting to be 
able to
 > reproduce it so I can provide a fix in the port.
 >
 > Michael
 >
 > On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 11:37:23AM -0500, Jeff Carpenter wrote:
 >
 >>Hello there.  I have recently installed proftpd on my FreeBSD 4.10 box
 >>via the ports system.  I was stumped as to why the server wasn't booting
 >>up!  I did some searching on Google and I found the solution; a
 >>scoreboard file has to be created.

Hi Michael,

I just installed 1.2.10 from ports last night on 5.3Beta3. I had the 
same problem. Server wouldn't start because the scoreboard file didn't 
exist.

The problem was proftpd wanted the scoreboard file to be
/var/run/proftpd/proftpd.scoreboard, but the directory /var/run/proftpd 
did not exist.

I don't know what else might live in that profptd directory, but on my 
install right now it is only the scoreboard file. This makes me wonder 
whether it should just live in /var/run/ with proftpd's pid file?

- Sam Nilsson