ProFTPD No longer works

[Jasper Frumau]

Thanks Ryan. I did figure it out in the end. See
http://serverfault.com/questions/531685/proftp-on-macports-connection-refused.
Thanks for getting back to me on this!


On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 6:13 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org>wrote:

>
> On Aug 17, 2013, at 01:11, Jasper Frumau wrote:
>
> > I just tried to update a local WordPress installation using ProFTPD, but
> > the connection did not work. Trying FTP locally only give me a connection
> > refused:
> >
> > ftp localhost
> > Trying ::1...
> > ftp: Can't connect to `::1': Connection refused
> > Trying 127.0.0.1...
> > ftp: Can't connect to `127.0.0.1': Connection refused
> > Trying fe80::1%lo0...
> > ftp: Can't connect to `fe80::1%lo0': Connection refused
> > ftp: Can't connect to `localhost'
> >
> > I thought the port was missing so I did a new installation:
> >
> > sudo port install proftpd
> > --->  Computing dependencies for proftpd
> > --->  Cleaning proftpd
> > --->  Updating database of binaries: 100.0%
> > --->  Scanning binaries for linking errors: 100.0%
> > --->  No broken files found.
>
> Ok, so the port was already installed.
>
> > Then I tried a command:
> > proftpd -t
> > -bash: proftpd: command not found
> >
> > No success as of yet. Ideas what I am doing wrong?
>
> I'm not familiar with proftpd but I installed the port and ran the above
> command and it did produce some output ("Checking syntax of configuration
> file", etc.), so at least the proftpd binary is missing on your system;
> maybe other files are missing as well.
>
> What's the output of:
>
> port -v installed proftpd
> port contents proftpd
>
> Perhaps the files got deleted after installation somehow. If so, you could
> bring them back with:
>
> sudo port -f deactivate proftpd
> sudo port activate proftpd
>
> Does that help? If not, try rebuilding proftpd:
>
> sudo port -ns upgrade --force proftpd
>
>
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