This is much rather a selinux problem, but I don't know how the policy for EPEL is to report these problems (should these be reported to RHEL5-selinux?), so I am reporting this here: The default selinux context for proftd.score is: system_u:object_r:var_run_t It must be: system_u:object_r:ftpd_var_run_t # rpm -q selinux-policy selinux-policy-2.4.6-203.el5
Try changing ScoreboardFile in your proftpd.conf to /var/run/proftpd/proftpd.score
Yes this works, but a default installation of proftpd does use /var/proftpd/proftpd.scoreboard If we want to get this to work out-of-the-box (TM) we should either - add "ScoreboardFile /var/run/proftpd/proftpd.score" to the default proftpd.conf or - change the selinux context for the default proftpd.conf
Fixing the ScoreboardFile config item is the easiest fix since that's something that's already in the config file (pointing to /var/run/proftpd.score). Fixing the SELinux context would also require a type transition rule adding to policy to ensure that if a new scoreboard file got created, it would have the correct context type.
Easiest fix is actually just to remove the ScoreboardFile config item from proftpd.conf altogether; the default value of /var/run/proftpd/proftpd.scoreboard is fine as far as SELinux is concerned. I'll do this in the next release, which I'm working on now.
proftpd-1.3.2a-2.el5 has been submitted as an update for Fedora EPEL 5. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/proftpd-1.3.2a-2.el5
proftpd-1.3.2a-2.el5 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 5 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update proftpd'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/EL-5/FEDORA-EPEL-2009-0175
proftpd-1.3.2a-3.el5 has been submitted as an update for Fedora EPEL 5. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/proftpd-1.3.2a-3.el5
proftpd-1.3.2a-3.el5 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 5 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update proftpd'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/EL-5/FEDORA-EPEL-2009-0320
proftpd-1.3.2a-4.el5 has been submitted as an update for Fedora EPEL 5. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/proftpd-1.3.2a-4.el5
proftpd-1.3.2a-4.el5 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 5 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update proftpd'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/EL-5/FEDORA-EPEL-2009-0382
proftpd-1.3.2a-5.el5 has been submitted as an update for Fedora EPEL 5. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/proftpd-1.3.2a-5.el5
proftpd-1.3.2a-5.el5 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 5 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update proftpd'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/EL-5/FEDORA-EPEL-2009-0397
proftpd-1.3.2a-5.el5 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 5 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.