Re: problems w/ proftpd

[Adam Shand <larry@alaska.net>]

> i am getting an error now after updating my kernel
> 
> the ftpd deamon says:     - Fatal: Group: Unknown group 'root':
> 
> therefore the service doesn't start
> any suggestion before i hose down the system??

do you have a group called root in your /etc/group file?  i'll bet $$ that
you don't (or that your /etc/group isn't readable by the user that proftpd
runs as).

heyzeus(larry)$ grep root /etc/group
root:x:0:larry

i'd be concerned about how it got removed though, that's a bad thing.

adam.