Fatal: unknown configuration directive 'VRootEngine' on line 16 of '/etc/proftpd.conf'

Hi, after a weekly reboot of my server - it appears proftpd will not start. I have made absolutely no changes what-so-ever and can't work out why it will not start.

Running /usr/sbin/proftpd shows: Fatal: unknown configuration directive 'VRootEngine' on line 16 of '/etc/proftpd.conf'

I checked my /etc/proftpd.conf and it has not changed since september?

This is is here - please advise !!

This is the ProFTPD configuration file

#

See: http://www.proftpd.org/docs/directives/linked/by-name.html Server Config - config used for anything outside a or context See: http://www.proftpd.org/docs/howto/Vhost.html

ServerName "ITGroup FTP Server" ServerIdent on "FTP Server ready." ServerAdmin root@localhost DefaultServer on

Cause every FTP user except adm to be chrooted into their home directory Aliasing /etc/security/pam_env.conf into the chroot allows pam_env to work at session-end time (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/477120)

VRootEngine on DefaultRoot ~ !adm VRootAlias /etc/security/pam_env.conf etc/security/pam_env.conf

Use pam to authenticate (default) and be authoritative

AuthPAMConfig proftpd AuthOrder mod_auth_pam.c* mod_auth_unix.c

If you use NIS/YP/LDAP you may need to disable PersistentPasswd PersistentPasswd off Don't do reverse DNS lookups (hangs on DNS problems)

UseReverseDNS off

Set the user and group that the server runs as

User nobody Group nobody

To prevent DoS attacks, set the maximum number of child processes to 20. If you need to allow more than 20 concurrent connections at once, simply increase this value. Note that this ONLY works in standalone mode; in inetd mode you should use an inetd server that allows you to limit maximum number of processes per service (such as xinetd)

MaxInstances 20

Disable sendfile by default since it breaks displaying the download speeds in ftptop and ftpwho

UseSendfile off

Define the log formats

LogFormat default "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %s %b" LogFormat auth "%v [%P] %h %t \"%r\" %s"

Dynamic Shared Object (DSO) loading See README.DSO and howto/DSO.html for more details

#

General database support (http://www.proftpd.org/docs/contrib/mod_sql.html) LoadModule mod_sql.c

#

Support for base-64 or hex encoded MD5 and SHA1 passwords from SQL tables (contrib/mod_sql_passwd.html) LoadModule mod_sql_passwd.c

#

Mysql support (requires proftpd-mysql package) (http://www.proftpd.org/docs/contrib/mod_sql.html) LoadModule mod_sql_mysql.c

#

Postgresql support (requires proftpd-postgresql package) (http://www.proftpd.org/docs/contrib/mod_sql.html) LoadModule mod_sql_postgres.c

#

Quota support (http://www.proftpd.org/docs/contrib/mod_quotatab.html) LoadModule mod_quotatab.c

#

File-specific "driver" for storing quota table information in files (http://www.proftpd.org/docs/contrib/mod_quotatab_file.html) LoadModule mod_quotatab_file.c

#

SQL database "driver" for storing quota table information in SQL tables (http://www.proftpd.org/docs/contrib/mod_quotatab_sql.html) LoadModule mod_quotatab_sql.c

#

LDAP support (requires proftpd-ldap package) (http://www.proftpd.org/docs/directives/linked/config_ref_mod_ldap.html) LoadModule mod_ldap.c

#

LDAP quota support (requires proftpd-ldap package) (http://www.proftpd.org/docs/contrib/mod_quotatab_ldap.html) LoadModule mod_quotatab_ldap.c

#

Support for authenticating users using the RADIUS protocol (http://www.proftpd.org/docs/contrib/mod_radius.html) LoadModule mod_radius.c

#

Retrieve quota limit table information from a RADIUS server (http://www.proftpd.org/docs/contrib/mod_quotatab_radius.html) LoadModule mod_quotatab_radius.c

#

Administrative control actions for the ftpdctl program (http://www.proftpd.org/docs/contrib/mod_ctrls_admin.html) LoadModule mod_ctrls_admin.c

#

Execute external programs or scripts at various points in the process of handling FTP commands (http://www.castaglia.org/proftpd/modules/mod_exec.html) LoadModule mod_exec.c

#

Support for POSIX ACLs (http://www.proftpd.org/docs/modules/mod_facl.html) LoadModule mod_facl.c

#

Support for using the GeoIP library to look up geographical information on the connecting client and using that to set access controls for the server (http://www.castaglia.org/proftpd/modules/mod_geoip.html) LoadModule mod_geoip.c

#

Configure server availability based on system load (http://www.proftpd.org/docs/contrib/mod_load.html) LoadModule mod_load.c

#

Limit downloads to a multiple of upload volume (see README.ratio) LoadModule mod_ratio.c

#

Rewrite FTP commands sent by clients on-the-fly, using regular expression matching and substitution (http://www.proftpd.org/docs/contrib/mod_rewrite.html) LoadModule mod_rewrite.c

#

Support for the SSH2, SFTP, and SCP protocols, for secure file transfer over an SSH2 connection (http://www.castaglia.org/proftpd/modules/mod_sftp.html) LoadModule mod_sftp.c

#

Use PAM to provide a 'keyboard-interactive' SSH2 authentication method for mod_sftp (http://www.castaglia.org/proftpd/modules/mod_sftp_pam.html) LoadModule mod_sftp_pam.c

#

Use SQL (via mod_sql) for looking up authorized SSH2 public keys for user and host based authentication (http://www.castaglia.org/proftpd/modules/mod_sftp_sql.html) LoadModule mod_sftp_sql.c

#

Provide data transfer rate "shaping" across the entire server (http://www.castaglia.org/proftpd/modules/mod_shaper.html) LoadModule mod_shaper.c

#

Support for miscellaneous SITE commands such as SITE MKDIR, SITE SYMLINK, and SITE UTIME (http://www.proftpd.org/docs/contrib/mod_site_misc.html) LoadModule mod_site_misc.c

#

Provide an external SSL session cache using shared memory (contrib/mod_tls_shmcache.html) LoadModule mod_tls_shmcache.c

#

Use the /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny files, or other allow/deny files, for IP-based access control (http://www.proftpd.org/docs/contrib/mod_wrap.html) LoadModule mod_wrap.c

#

Use the /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny files, or other allow/deny files, as well as SQL-based access rules, for IP-based access control (http://www.proftpd.org/docs/contrib/mod_wrap2.html) LoadModule mod_wrap2.c

#

Support module for mod_wrap2 that handles access rules stored in specially formatted files on disk (http://www.proftpd.org/docs/contrib/mod_wrap2_file.html) LoadModule mod_wrap2_file.c

#

Support module for mod_wrap2 that handles access rules stored in SQL database tables (http://www.proftpd.org/docs/contrib/mod_wrap2_sql.html) LoadModule mod_wrap2_sql.c

#

Provide a flexible way of specifying that certain configuration directives only apply to certain sessions, based on credentials such as connection class, user, or group membership (http://www.proftpd.org/docs/contrib/mod_ifsession.html) LoadModule mod_ifsession.c TLS (http://www.castaglia.org/proftpd/modules/mod_tls.html)

TLSEngine on TLSRequired on TLSRSACertificateFile /etc/pki/tls/certs/proftpd.pem TLSRSACertificateKeyFile /etc/pki/tls/certs/proftpd.pem TLSCipherSuite ALL:!ADH:!DES TLSOptions NoCertRequest TLSVerifyClient off #TLSRenegotiate ctrl 3600 data 512000 required off timeout 300 TLSLog /var/log/proftpd/tls.log TLSSessionCache shm:/file=/var/run/proftpd/sesscache

Dynamic ban lists (http://www.proftpd.org/docs/contrib/mod_ban.html) Enable this with PROFTPD_OPTIONS=-DDYNAMIC_BAN_LISTS in /etc/sysconfig/proftpd

LoadModule mod_ban.c BanEngine on BanLog /var/log/proftpd/ban.log BanTable /var/run/proftpd/ban.tab

# If the same client reaches the MaxLoginAttempts limit 2 times # within 10 minutes, automatically add a ban for that client that # will expire after one hour. BanOnEvent MaxLoginAttempts 2/00:10:00 01:00:00

# Allow the FTP admin to manually add/remove bans BanControlsACLs all allow user ftpadm

Global Config - config common to Server Config and all virtual hosts See: http://www.proftpd.org/docs/howto/Vhost.html

# Umask 022 is a good standard umask to prevent new dirs and files # from being group and world writable Umask 022

# Allow users to overwrite files and change permissions AllowOverwrite yes AllowAll

A basic anonymous configuration, with an upload directory Enable this with PROFTPD_OPTIONS=-DANONYMOUS_FTP in /etc/sysconfig/proftpd

User ftp Group ftp AccessGrantMsg "Anonymous login ok, restrictions apply."

# We want clients to be able to login with "anonymous" as well as "ftp"
UserAlias           anonymous ftp

# Limit the maximum number of anonymous logins
MaxClients          10 "Sorry, max %m users -- try again later"

# Put the user into /pub right after login
#DefaultChdir       /pub

# We want 'welcome.msg' displayed at login, '.message' displayed in
# each newly chdired directory and tell users to read README* files. 
DisplayLogin        /welcome.msg
DisplayChdir        .message
DisplayReadme       README*

# Cosmetic option to make all files appear to be owned by user "ftp"
DirFakeUser         on ftp
DirFakeGroup        on ftp

# Limit WRITE everywhere in the anonymous chroot
<Limit WRITE SITE_CHMOD>
  DenyAll
</Limit>

# An upload directory that allows storing files but not retrieving
# or creating directories.
<Directory uploads/*>
  AllowOverwrite        no
  <Limit READ>
    DenyAll
  </Limit>

  <Limit STOR>
    AllowAll
  </Limit>
</Directory>

# Don't write anonymous accesses to the system wtmp file (good idea!)
WtmpLog         off

# Logging for the anonymous transfers
ExtendedLog         /var/log/proftpd/access.log WRITE,READ default
ExtendedLog         /var/log/proftpd/auth.log AUTH auth