ftptop from psa-proftpd broken

[breun]

The psa-proftpd package contains the /usr/bin/ftptop binary ("display running status on proftpd server connections"), but it doesn't work on our CentOS servers:

# ftptop
ftptop: no curses or ncurses library on this system

The output says the (n)curses library is not available, but the ncurses package is installed on our servers. Please fix this.

 

[EthanH]

This is a Plesk bug. Running ldd /usr/bin/ftpwho gives:

]# ldd /usr/bin/ftpwho
        libcrypt.so.1 => /lib/libcrypt.so.1 (0x00d4c000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0x00bb8000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x00b9e000)

Apparently Parrallels did not compile ftpwho, a part of proftpd, against ncurses. You might be able to shoehorn a better built rpm of proftpd into your system, but it would certainly be easier if Parrallels got their act together. And, yes, the blame lies with them:

]# rpm -qa --qf "%{packager} - %{name} %{version} - %{arch}\n" | grep proftpd
Parallels <info@parallels.com> - psa-proftpd 1.3.1 - i586
Parallels <info@parallels.com> - psa-proftpd-xinetd 1.3.1 - i586

 

[dash]

The psa-proftpd package contains the /usr/bin/ftptop binary ("display running status on proftpd server connections"), but it doesn't work on our CentOS servers:

# ftptop
ftptop: no curses or ncurses library on this system

The output says the (n)curses library is not available, but the ncurses package is installed on our servers. Please fix this.

Thank you for report.
The problem is confirmed and will be fixed in Plesk 8.6.1