Proftpd service dies

[Devon Harding]

Has anyone seen this issue?

On 6/30/06, Devon Harding <devonharding at gmail.com> wrote:
> About every 3 or 4 days, my ProFTPD service stops accepting
> connections with the following message:
>
> [root at mars proftpd]# ftp localhost
> Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1).
> 220 FTP Server ready.
> Name (localhost:root): jdoe
> 500  not understood
> Login failed.
> ftp>
>
> I keep on having to restart the service to get it going.  Am I doing
> something wrong? Here is my proftpd.conf:
>
> [root at mars etc]# cat proftpd.conf
> # This is the ProFTPD configuration file
> # $Id: proftpd.conf,v 1.1 2004/02/26 17:54:30 thias Exp $
> ServerName                      "ProFTPD server"
> ServerIdent                     on "FTP Server ready."
> ServerAdmin                     root at localhost
> ServerType                      standalone
> DefaultServer                   on
> AccessGrantMsg                  "User %u logged in."
> DeferWelcome                    off
> DefaultRoot                     ~ !adm
> AuthPAMConfig                   proftpd
> AuthOrder                       mod_auth_pam.c* mod_auth_unix.c
> IdentLookups                    off
> UseReverseDNS                   on
> Port                            21
> Umask                           022
> ListOptions                     "-a"
> MaxConnectionRate               4
> AllowRetrieveRestart            on
> AllowStoreRestart               on
> MaxInstances                    10
> User                            nobody
> Group                           nobody
> ScoreboardFile                  /var/run/proftpd.score
>
> <Global>
>  AllowOverwrite                yes
>  <Limit ALL SITE_CHMOD>
>    AllowAll
>  </Limit>
>  <Limit WRITE SITE_CHMOD>
>    DenyAll
>  </Limit>
> </Global>
>
>
> LogFormat                       default "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %s %b"
> LogFormat                       auth    "%v [%P] %h %t \"%r\" %s"
>
> WtmpLog                 off
> ExtendedLog             /var/log/proftpd/access.log WRITE,READ default
> ExtendedLog             /var/log/proftpd/auth.log AUTH auth
>
> <Anonymous ~tmp>
>  User                  jdoe
>  Group                 jdoe
>  AccessGrantMsg                "login ok, restrictions apply."
>  MaxClients                    10 "Sorry, max %m users -- try again later"
>  DirFakeUser                   on jdoe
>  DirFakeGroup                  on jdoe
>  AnonRequirePassword     on
>  <Limit WRITE SITE_CHMOD>
>    DenyAll
>  </Limit>
>  <Directory /*>
>    AllowOverwrite              off
>    HideNoAccess                on
>    <Limit READ>
>     AllowAll
>    </Limit>
>  </Directory>
>  <Directory Uploadz/*>
>    AllowOverwrite              on
>    <Limit STOR CMD MKD WRITE>
>      AllowAll
>    </Limit>
>  </Directory>
>  <Directory /mnt/emule>
>   <Limit READ>
>     AllowAll
>   </Limit>
>  </Directory>
> </Anonymous>
>