service fails to start w/ [!!]

milanuk · Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2003 5:14 am Post subject: service fails to start w/ [!!]

When I was trying to restart (and later just start) pure-ftpd it failed saying:

Starting pure-ftpd... [!!]

and it subsequently shows as stopped. Where can I get some more information as to *what* exactly it objected to and choked on?

TIA,

Monte

moocha · Watchman Joined: 21 Oct 2003 Posts: 5722

Did you happen to unmerge pure-ftpd? The service control files in /etc/init.d are never deleted when unmerging the package that installed them - they're in a CONFIG_PROTECTed directory (see the Portage Manual for details on that).
IF you're sure it's there and a re-emerge on pure-ftpd doesn't fix the problem, you might want to try looking through the system logs (in the /var/log directory) to see if there are any error messages from pure-ftpd.

milanuk · Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2003 10:16 pm Post subject:

I hadn't unmerged pure-ftpd at that point, but I have since. I will try a re-install of it and check the logs if I have any more problems. Any idea as to a specific log the startup error messages might get filed in?

TIA,

Monte

moocha · Watchman Joined: 21 Oct 2003 Posts: 5722

The specific log file depends on what logging package you use :)

milanuk · Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2003 12:43 am Post subject:

metalog, IIRC

Thanks,

Monte