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