From: "Radik D.Usmanov" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1995 09:37:16 +0300

Dear Sirs:

I am an Administrator of a local network at Chernogolovka, a 
Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
A couple of days ago, we received a FTP server designed and  donated 
by Washington University ( Release 2.4). I have the server installed on my 
computer which incorporates the operational system  FreeBSD 2.0.5.

Regrettably, every time anyone tries to communicate with my computer 
in the FTP mode, the following sentence shows up on the screen:

   Oct 23 16:59:05 netserv1 ftpd[619]: open of pid file failed: No such
   file or directory

I would be very grateful, if you could possibly explain the reason 
and help.

Thank you for your cooperation.

Faithfully,

                                           Radik Usmanov