Subject: Re:

From: "Keith Smith" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 1995 11:59:58 +1200

> 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

Your problem is caused by a non-existing directory.

WU-FTPD maintains a PID file for each class of connected user.  They 
are used for 'ftpwho' and logging (I think).  These 
files are stored in the daemon ftp directory.  By default this is:
    /usr/local/daemon/ftpd
Create this directory and it should go.

If it still does not work then look in you pathnames.h for the 
directory it is using.

Good luck,
Keith.

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