The pure-ftpd package that comes with Debian 5.0 (Lenny) does not start in a OpenVZ virtual machine as it is compiled with "capabilities". This tutorial describes the steps to build a pure-ftpd Debian package with capabilities disabled:
Make a temporary directory
mkdir /usr/src/pure-ftpd
cd /usr/src/pure-ftpd
Download the source package for pure-ftpd
apt-get source pure-ftpd
apt-get build-dep pure-ftpd
Edit the rules file and add the switch "--without-capabilities"
cd pure-ftpd-1.0.21/debian
nano rules
Change the line:
optflags=--with-everything --with-largefile --with-pam --with-privsep --with-tls
to (one Line!):
optflags=--with-everything --with-largefile --with-pam --with-privsep --with-tls --without-capabilities
Build the Debian (.deb) package
cd ..
dpkg-buildpackage -uc -b
and install it
cd ..
dpkg -i pure-ftpd-common_1.0.21-11.4_all.deb pure-ftpd-mysql_1.0.21-11.4_i386.deb
/etc/init.d/pure-ftpd-mysql restart
To prevent that apt overwrites these manually compiled packages with the default packages from the Debian repositorys, execute these commands:
echo 'pure-ftpd-common hold' | dpkg --set-selections
echo 'pure-ftpd-mysql hold' | dpkg --set-selections
This tutorial is based on the german tutorial from planet_fox
Thank you so much! Worked perfect!!!
For me i had to add source and update sys. Than it worked.
nano /etc/apt/sources.list
added:
deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian lenny main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main
apt-get upgrade && apt-get update…
But after that you can not use apt-get update to update pureftpd, the packages are keept back.
How would we go about updating Pureftpd after we’ve done this?
It didn’t solved my problem. I’ve removed the packages firstly and reinstalling the packages give me the error
Setting up pure-ftpd-mysql (1.0.28-2) …
update-rc.d: warning: pure-ftpd-mysql stop runlevel arguments (1) do not match LSB Default-Stop values (0 1 6)
Starting ftp server: Running: /usr/sbin/pure-ftpd-mysql-virtualchroot -l mysql:/etc/pure-ftpd/db/mysql.conf -l pam -Y 1 -u 1000 -A -b -D -O clf:/var/log/pure-ftpd/transfer.log -8 UTF-8 -H -B
invoke-rc.d: initscript pure-ftpd-mysql, action “start” failed.
dpkg: error processing pure-ftpd-mysql (–configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 252
Errors were encountered while processing:
pure-ftpd-mysql
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
E: Failed to process build dependencies
??
any help will be great
root@vps:/usr/src/pure-ftpd# dpkg -i pure-ftpd-common_1.0.21-11.4_all.deb pure-ftpd-mysql_1.0.21-11.4_i386.deb
dpkg: warning: downgrading pure-ftpd-common from 1.0.24-1 to 1.0.21-11.4.
(Reading database … 36424 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace pure-ftpd-common 1.0.24-1 (using pure-ftpd-common_1.0.21-11.4_all.deb) …
Unpacking replacement pure-ftpd-common …
Selecting previously deselected package pure-ftpd-mysql.
Unpacking pure-ftpd-mysql (from pure-ftpd-mysql_1.0.21-11.4_i386.deb) …
Setting up pure-ftpd-common (1.0.21-11.4) …
Installing new version of config file /etc/pam.d/pure-ftpd …
Processing triggers for man-db …
Setting up pure-ftpd-mysql (1.0.21-11.4) …
Starting ftp server: /usr/sbin/pure-ftpd-wrapper: Invalid configuration file /etc/pure-ftpd/conf/FSCharset: No corresponding directive
invoke-rc.d: initscript pure-ftpd-mysql, action “start” failed.
dpkg: error processing pure-ftpd-mysql (–install):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 255
Errors were encountered while processing:
pure-ftpd-mysql
Any help?
Had a problem in the last step
echo ‘pure-ftpd-common hold’| dpkg -set-selections
echo ‘pure-ftpd-mysql hold’ | dpkg -set-selections
Appeared the following message after the command:
root@servidor-DPW:/usr/src/pure-ftpd# echo ‘pure-ftpd-common hold’ | dpkg -selections
dpkg: conflicting actions -e (–control) and -s (–status)
Type dpkg –help for help about installing and deinstalling packages [*];
Use `dselect’ or `aptitude’ for user-friendly package management;
Type dpkg -Dhelp for a list of dpkg debug flag values;
Type dpkg –force-help for a list of forcing options;
Type dpkg-deb –help for help about manipulating *.deb files;
Type dpkg –license for copyright license and lack of warranty (GNU GPL) [*].
Options marked [*] produce a lot of output – pipe it through `less’ or `more’ !
I searched on google and realized I was missing one “-” before “-set-selections”
I used to work properly:
echo ‘pure-ftpd-common hold’ | dpkg –set-selections
echo ‘pure-ftpd-mysql hold’ | dpkg –set-selections
It were already 2 — in these commands in the tutorial, just some browsers display it wrong. I’ve changed the formatting now so that it should be more clear in other browsers as well. Thanks for pointing this out!
I’m trying to follow all steps in this tutorial with Wheezy 7.1 but when I do
dpkg-buildpackage -uc -b
the builder stucks in a loop and never stops…
I tried it even without modifying the rules files, so with original source.
Anybody has a clue?
do you solve the problem ?
i have the same problem of Alessandro on Debian Wheezy , solution?