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Date: Fri, 1 Dec 1995 01:07:03 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: How do I fix this annoying entry?
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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

Often followed by:

last message repeated 4 times (the number varies)

It always appears regardless if the session is anonymous or not.  I 
created /usr/anon/var/run in case it is looking there and no go.  Regular 
ftpd doesn't give this error.

How can we satisfy wu-ftpd and get rid of this error?    Or at least, how 
can I find out where it wants to put the pid file?  :)

Thanks for any help you can provide.

Doug White                              | Student, University of Oregon
Internet:  dwhite@gladstone.uoregon.edu | Major: Computer Science
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Eugene/Spfld BBS List Publisher

