Kent West wrote: > > I don't know how long it's been, 'cause I seldom ftp into my box, > but recently I noticed that I can't ftp in anymore. > > I suspect there's some sort of conflict between ftpd and proftpd, > so I've tried to "dpkg --purge proftpd" (and "apt-get remove > proftpd") but this results in: > > (Reading database ... 36800 files and directories currently > installed.) > Removing proftpd ... > proftpd: no process killed > dpkg: error processing proftpd (--purge): > subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1 > Errors were encountered while processing: > proftpd > > I've tried to "apt-get install proftpd" (and dselect to install > it), but I get: > > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > Sorry, proftpd is already the newest version > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not > upgraded. > > How do I get rid or reinstall proftp and get my ftp (inbound) > working again? > > Thanks!
I'm sure there's a better way, but I figured out a work around. Apparently the purge/removal process was looking for a running proftpd daemon and since proftpd appears to be broken (no man pages even!) the purge/removal process was erroring out. So I made a copy of nedit (an editor for X) and renamed it to "proftpd", then fired it up with the new name. Then I tried purging proftpd and voila! Success! Then I was able to reinstall proftp and now I'm getting somewhere. Somehow or 'nother I've lost my ftp client in all of this, and neither apt-get nor dselect knows of just plain ftp. They know of cftp and lftp, etc. What do I need to install in order to get a plain ftp client reinstalled?
