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To turn on verbose logging (e.g. to debug FTP connection or authentication problems) in  pure-ftpd FTP server on Debian and Ubuntu Linux, execute the following command as root user in the shell:

echo 'yes' > /etc/pure-ftpd/conf/VerboseLog

and then restart pure-ftpd

/etc/init.d/pure-ftpd-mysql restart

The debug output will be logged to syslog. To view the log content, execute:

tail -n 100 /var/log/syslog

To disable verbose logging, execute these commands:

rm -f /etc/pure-ftpd/conf/VerboseLog
/etc/init.d/pure-ftpd-mysql restart