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Date:      Sat, 27 Jan 2007 15:36:42 -0600
From:      Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com>
To:        Peter Matulis <pmatulis@sympatico.ca>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cannot launch vsftpd at system startup
Message-ID:  <6.0.0.22.2.20070127153616.02483ec0@mail.computinginnovations.com>
In-Reply-To: <200701271555.37416.pmatulis@sympatico.ca>
References:  <200701271555.37416.pmatulis@sympatico.ca>

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add set -x to the startup script and debug where that error message is 
coming from.

         -Derek


At 02:55 PM 1/27/2007, Peter Matulis wrote:
>Hi gang,
>
>I have read quite a few articles on how to start vsftpd at system bootup
>but nothing seems to work on my new and updated 6.2 STABLE machine.
>
>I have copied /usr/ports/ftp/vsftpd/files/vsftpd.sh.in
>to /usr/local/etc/rc.d/vsftpd.sh and it is executable.
>
>In /etc/rc.conf I am placing:
>
>vsftpd_enable="YES"
>
>and in vsftpd.conf:
>
>listen=YES
>background=YES
>
>I can't see the error when my machine boots but when I attempt to run
>the rc.d script manually I get:
>
>.: Can't open %%RC_SUBR%%: No such file or directory
>
>I can start the daemon at the command line:
>
>/usr/local/libexec/vsftpd &
>
>I installed the port sysutils/rc_subr thinking it may help but it does
>not.  I also reinstalled vsftpd with the make option RC_NG but it
>doesn't seem to do anything (isn't it supposed to install the rc.d
>script?).
>
>Any comments?
>
>Peter
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