ProFTPD fails to start

hi,

I just installed ProFTPD using 'apt-get install proftpd'.
The installation was successful but it said: ProFTPd warning: cannot
start neither in standalone nor in inetd/xinetd mode. Check your
configuration.
My /etc/proftpd.conf has:

ServerName "rhftp"
ServerType inetd
DeferWelcome off

ShowSymlinks on
MultilineRFC2228 on
DefaultServer on
ShowSymlinks on
AllowOverwrite on

TimeoutNoTransfer 600
TimeoutStalled 600
TimeoutIdle 1200

DisplayLogin welcome.msg
DisplayFirstChdir .message
LsDefaultOptions "-l"

# Port 21 is the standard FTP port.
Port 21

# Umask 022 is a good standard umask to prevent new files and dirs
# (second parm) from being group and world writable.
Umask 022 022

# To prevent DoS attacks, set the maximum number of child processes
# to 30. If you need to allow more than 30 concurrent connections
# at once, simply increase this value. Note that this ONLY works
# in standalone mode, in inetd mode you should use an inetd server
# that allows you to limit maximum number of processes per service
# (such as xinetd)
MaxInstances 30

# Set the user and group that the server normally runs at.
User nobody
Group nogroup

# Normally, we want files to be overwriteable.

AllowOverwrite on

# A basic anonymous configuration, no upload directories.

User ftp
Group nogroup
# We want clients to be able to login with "anonymous" as well as "ftp"
UserAlias anonymous ftp

RequireValidShell off

# Limit the maximum number of anonymous logins
MaxClients 10

# We want 'welcome.msg' displayed at login, and '.message' displayed
# in each newly chdired directory.
DisplayLogin welcome.msg
DisplayFirstChdir .message

# Limit WRITE everywhere in the anonymous chroot

DenyAll

# Uncomment this if you're brave.

DenyAll

AllowAll

Can someone tell me what could be/is wrong?
Also i seem to have a 'proftpd' dir. in /etc (/etc/proftpd) inside
there is: modules.conf and proftpd.conf is this normal?

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RE: ProFTPD fails to start

> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat penguin [mailto:rh.pngn@gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 3:23 PM
> To:
> Subject: ProFTPD fails to start
>
> hi,
>
> I just installed ProFTPD using 'apt-get install proftpd'.
> The installation was successful but it said: ProFTPd warning: cannot
> start neither in standalone nor in inetd/xinetd mode. Check your
> configuration.
> My /etc/proftpd.conf has:
>
> ServerName "rhftp"
> ServerType inetd
> DeferWelcome off

... [snipped rest of config file]

Change ServerType from inetd to standalone.

> Also i seem to have a 'proftpd' dir. in /etc (/etc/proftpd) inside
> there is: modules.conf and proftpd.conf is this normal?

That is the normal place for the config files. On my system, I
don't have a /etc/proftpd.conf, it is in the /etc/proftpd directory.
You should probably remove the one under /etc and use the one in
/etc/proftpd.

-- Kevin

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