In OpenVZ management, we often face the issue that pure-ftpd fails to start in OpenVZ server. Take a look at the issue in detail and see the steps on how to resolve the issue.
Issue : pure-ftpd was not starting in an ispCP enabled VPS server. It was showing failed status in both xinetd and standalone version. ispCP stores the information in MySQL database.
Troubleshooting :
Run the pure-ftpd script using the command itself, and without the sysV startup script.
/usr/sbin/pure-ftpd --daemonize -A -c50 -B -C8 -D -E -fftp -H -I15 -lmysql:/etc/pure-ftpd/pureftpd-mysql.conf -L7500:8 -m4 -s -U133:022 -u500 -i -Oclf:/var/log/pureftpd.log -k99 -Z -4
If it is a failure. Now the turn for strace. Try to install strace by issuing the command,
yum install strace
Error to be noted was below
capset(0x19980330, 0, {CAP_CHOWN|CAP_DAC_READ_SEARCH|CAP_SETGID|CAP_SETUID|CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE|CAP_NET_ADMIN|CAP_SYS_CHROOT|CAP_SYS_NICE, CAP_CHOWN|CAP_DAC_READ_SEARCH|CAP_SETGID|CAP_SETUID|CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE|CAP_NET_ADMIN|CAP_SYS_CHROOT|CAP_SYS_NICE, 0}) = -1 EPERM (Operation not permitted)
followed by a log message in /var/log/messages as
pure-ftpd: (?@?) [ERROR] Unable to switch capabilities : Operation not permitted
Edit the VPS configuration file in the node to add lines below directly as below and then restart the vps from node or PIM or anything you use as the control panel.
CAPABILITY=”CHOWN:on DAC_READ_SEARCH:on SETGID:on SETUID:on NET_BIND_SERVICE:on NET_ADMIN:on SYS_CHROOT:on SYS_NICE:on”
A restart of VPS should fix the error
