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nehalem
PostPosted: Sun Mar 18, 2012 1:22 pm 
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Hello,

I'm having a bit of a problem (more of an annoyance) in Ubuntu 10.04 where the ProFTPd service starts by itself every couple days. I have removed all startup scripts for ProFTPd although this shouldn't make a difference since the server isn't rebooted.

Does anyone have any suggestions or has experienced anything like this?

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PostPosted: Sun Mar 18, 2012 4:13 pm 
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What about
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apt-get remove proftpd

If you need a service only very occasionally, it's a good idea to remove it and re-install it only when you need it. Thanks to apt-get, uninstalling and re-installing a package on Ubuntu is as easy as stopping and starting a service.

Also check your currently running processes. Sometimes, when you remove a package, running processes aren't properly stopped. Also, a program can hang around like a zombie even after the actual executable has been deleted.

If the restart happens on a regular basism it might also have something to do with the contents of the /etc/cron.d directory.
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So it wasn't cron that was the culprit, and I didn't see it in my list of running processes. At this point I don't care either. I used:

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apt-get remove proftpd


The result:

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apt-get remove proftpd
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting proftpd-basic instead of proftpd
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
db4.8-util libfile-copy-recursive-perl update-inetd openbsd-inetd
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
proftpd-basic
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 2187kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 27060 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing proftpd-basic ...
* Stopping ftp server proftpd [ OK ]
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead ...


And guess what, it was neither running or listening on a port at that point. I wonder what "Stopping ftp server" means... :?

Anyway, that's the end of that.

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nehalem wrote:
I wonder what "Stopping ftp server" means... :?

That's just apt-get trying to make sure that the ProFTPd service has actually stopped. As I said, services often continue to run even if you delete the executable from under their feet, so it's necessary to double-check.
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 18, 2012 9:36 pm 
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Thanks for the help and explanation.

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