vsftpd and ntp (cap_set_proc) problem

**savage_cabbage** · 09-04-2004

Hey,
I'm having this strange problem with vsftpd. It used to run flawlessly until one day i did "apt-get upgrade". Now when I try to log in my ftp server, i got this:

Code:

&#91;david@blah ~&#93;$ ncftp -u david localhost
NcFTP 3.1.8 &#40;Jul 10, 2004&#41; by Mike Gleason &#40;http&#58;//www.NcFTP.com/contact/&#41;.
Connecting to 127.0.0.1...
&#40;vsFTPd 1.2.1&#41;
Logging in...
Password requested by 127.0.0.1 for user "david".

    Please specify the password.

Password&#58; *************
Unexpected response&#58; OOPS&#58; cap_set_proc
OOPS&#58; cap_set_proc
Sleeping 20 seconds...

Now, I realized that my ntp doesn't work either. Everytime it synchronizes with the time servers, it'll fail. I checked the /var/log/ntp.log file and it says:

Code:

3 Sep 12&#58;04&#58;44 ntpd&#91;4426&#93;&#58; cap_set_proc failed.

So now it seems it's all about this cap_set_proc thing. What the hell is it anyway? I couldn't find any clue on google. Would anyone please shed some light? Thanks.

**savage_cabbage** · 09-04-2004

Just a followup of what I did. Now the problem was solved by installing the kernel-2.6.8-1.521. I was using kernel-2.6.7-1.437.1.ll.rhfc2.ccrma. So it's definitely because of the kernel.

**edwardvankuik** · 01-13-2005

Hi

I had this problem too, but then i inserted this kernel module

modprobe capability

and my problems went away. You new kernel probably has it in by default.
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