[Mod_ftpd] mod_ftpd not accepting password

[Edward Rudd]

On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 08:17, Kevin Armijo wrote:
> I did what you said.  There were no semaphors or shared memory segments left
> active.
> I removed the tmp file also and there was not a file named
> mod_ftpd_default.tmp.lock.
> Here is what I get from an ftp client:
> Password:
> 421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection
> Login failed.
> No control connection for command: Permission denied

The problem has to do with the fact that mod_ftpd_default is not
attaching to the global semaphore lock (the error -17 that appeared in
the logs)..  so the error.log in apache is what is useful.

What OS is this running on?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Edward Rudd [mailto:urkle at outoforder.cc] 
> Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 6:06 PM
> To: Kevin_Armijo at nmenv.state.nm.us
> Cc: mod_ftpd at lists.outoforder.cc
> Subject: RE: [Mod_ftpd] mod_ftpd not accepting password
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 16:24, Kevin Armijo wrote:
> > Okay, after working on this all day, I finally pointed exactly what is 
> > causing the problem. It is mod_ftpd_default.c
> > 
> > Should I fallback to a previous version?
> nope, I need to fix this issue.. it has to do with permissions of the lock
> file that gets created.. I thought I fixed it for 0.12.3, I guess I didn't.
> run "ipcs" as root on your machine (when apache is stopped) and see if there
> are any left over semaphores or shared memory segments still active (with
> owner apache most likely but zero nattached). if so you need to ipcrm them.
> also delete the file /tmp/mod_ftpd_default and possibly the
> mod_ftpd_default.tmp.lock.  
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Edward Rudd [mailto:urkle at outoforder.cc]
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2004 6:08 PM
> > To: Kevin_Armijo at nmenv.state.nm.us
> > Cc: mod_ftpd at lists.outoforder.cc
> > Subject: Re: [Mod_ftpd] mod_ftpd not accepting password
> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 16:48, Kevin Armijo wrote:
> > > Details of server:
> > > Apache/2.0.49        (Unix)       mod_perl/1.99_14       Perl/v5.8.4
> > >     FrontPage/5.0.2.2635  mod_ftpd/0.12.3  PHP/4.3.7 Server at
> > > localhost
> > >     Port 80
> > >  
> > Need some more details than this. Like what kind of authentication are 
> > you using? How is it configured?  Is there anything in the error log? 
> > Have you tried running the server with "LogLevel Debug" in the 
> > httpd.conf file to get more information?
> > 
> > 
> > > Hello everyone!
> > >  
> > > This build has been running without any problems.  Suddenly, the ftp
> > > function will not accept a password. It will just hang.  I've 
> > > recreated my authfile files and the same thing continues to happen.  
> > > Can anyone help me?
> > >  
> > > Thanks!
> > >  
> > >  
> > >  
> > > Kevin Armijo
> > > System Administrator
> > > Information Technology Services
> > > New Mexico Environment Department Kevin_Armijo at nmenv.state.nm.us
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