[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: Mandrake FTP

[Chuck]

On a fresh install of Mandrake 9.1 on a 1.3gig Athlon with 512meg of memory, I 
am having trouble getting FTP to work.  When I do "ftp localhost" I get:

[chuck at tbird chuck]$ ftp localhost
Connected to tbird.cfgraf.com.
421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection
ftp>

So I quit out of ftp, and try restarting proftpd:

[root at tbird chuck]# service proftpd restart
Shutting down proftpd:                                          [FAILED]
Starting proftpd:                                               [  OK  ]
[root at tbird chuck]#

No matter how many times I restart it, it always fails to stop.  It does this 
on shut-down also.

I have tried editing /etc/proftpd.conf many ways, but nothing makes any 
difference. So I decided to ditch proftp for pure-ftp, ( pure-ftp worked 
great for years on Red Hat).  I can uninstall proftp OK, but when I try and 
install pure-ftp-1.0.14-5mdk.x86_64.rpm, it tells me it is already installed.  
Of course, trying to start pure-ftpd yields nothing, and using whereis
likewise gets no response.  Pure-ftpd is not listed in /var/logs/rpmpkgs.

Help.  I have a friend who just did an install of mandrake who has the exact 
same problem with proftp, but I cannot find any reference to this on Google 
or the Mandrake site.  What can I do to get rid of proftp and get pure-ftp to 
install?

Thanks.

Chuck Graf
www.cfgraf.com