Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA01309; Sat, 2 Dec 95 15:29:44 EST Received: from freefall.FreeBSD.ORG by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA01517; Sat, 2 Dec 95 15:28:40 EST Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id KAA14849 ; Fri, 1 Dec 1995 10:12:00 -0800 Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id KAA14794 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 1 Dec 1995 10:11:07 -0800 Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA14786 for ; Fri, 1 Dec 1995 10:11:05 -0800 Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id KAA00998; Fri, 1 Dec 1995 10:09:52 -0800 Date: Fri, 1 Dec 1995 10:09:52 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: John Hay Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How do I fix this annoying entry? In-Reply-To: <199512011026.MAA14354@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Fri, 1 Dec 1995, John Hay wrote: > > We are running wu-ftpd 2.4 on some FreeBSD boxes here and we keep getting > > this message whenever someone logs into the ftp server: > > > > ftpd[435]: open of pid file failed: No such file or directory > On my machines it is looking in: /usr/local/daemon/ftpd/ Oh, ok. I never saw anywhere where it mentions this dir. The error message doesn't help much :) I just made the directory and ftpd no longer complains. Thanks for the help! Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@gladstone.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major