pure-ftpd error on startup but ok if manually started

[chidrob]

pure-ftpd starts on boot, but I can not ftp (connection refused).

I must do
"/etc/init.d/pure-ftpd zap" and "/etc/init.d/pure-ftpd start"
and then it works ok, until the next reboot.

Both "/etc/init.d/pure-ftpd restart" and "/etc/init.d/pure-ftpd stop"
don't work because there is no pid file.

Looking at /mnt/init.d/ and it says pure-ftpd is started, but ps -x shows nothing (so the "zap" required previus to the start).

Perhaps I am executing the rc-script too early in the boot process.

I have tested with sleep operand, disabling some rc-scripts and other more silly things, without success.

I can post whichever information you think can help to look harder at the problem.

What is the next to look at?

Thanks.

[delta407]

Did you rc-update add it to boot or default?
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[chidrob]

default.

alsasound -> /etc/init.d/alsasound
cupsd -> /etc/init.d/cupsd
dhcp -> /etc/init.d/dhcp
gpm -> /etc/init.d/gpm
iptables -> /etc/init.d/iptables
local -> /etc/init.d/local
named -> /etc/init.d/named
net.eth0 -> /etc/init.d/net.eth0
net.eth1 -> /etc/init.d/net.eth1
net.eth2 -> /etc/init.d/net.eth2
netmount -> /etc/init.d/netmount
pure-ftpd -> /etc/init.d/pure-ftpd
sshd -> /etc/init.d/sshd
syslog-ng -> /etc/init.d/syslog-ng
vcron -> /etc/init.d/vcron
vmware -> /etc/init.d/vmware
wwwoffled -> /etc/init.d/wwwoffled
wwwoffled-online -> /etc/init.d/wwwoffled-online
xfs -> /etc/init.d/xfs

[mgirard]

Perhaps the configuration file is screwed up? I would definitely double check those settings. If you can't do a start/restart/stop from the commandline than the configurations is certainly suspect.

-Mg

[chidrob]

I found the problem.

1 - I was starting pure-ftpd before the interface with the ip address (wmnet).

2 - A missconfiguration in syslog-ng did that I lost the error message from pure-ftpd.

It seems that, if pure-ftpd starts with an unassigned ip address, the error is no t catched by the script in /etc/init.d/, and pure-ftpd is registered as started ok.

All in all, a silly error.