Job for pure-ftpd.service failed because a configured resource limit was exceeded. See "systemctl status pure-ftpd.servi

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Job for pure-ftpd.service failed because a configured resource limit was exceeded. See "systemctl status pure-ftpd.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.

pure-ftpd.service - Pure-FTPd FTP server
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/pure-ftpd.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: failed (Result: resources) since Mon 2018-09-17 16:16:51 EDT; 27s ago
Process: 65308 ExecStart=/sbin/pure-ftpd /etc/pure-ftpd/pure-ftpd.conf (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

Sep 17 16:16:51 vps.ciamovies.com systemd[1]: Starting Pure-FTPd FTP server...
Sep 17 16:16:51 vps.ciamovies.com systemd[1]: PID file /var/run/pure-ftpd.pid not readable (yet?) after start.
Sep 17 16:16:51 vps.ciamovies.com systemd[1]: pure-ftpd.service never wrote its PID file. Failing.
Sep 17 16:16:51 vps.ciamovies.com systemd[1]: Failed to start Pure-FTPd FTP server.
Sep 17 16:16:51 vps.ciamovies.com systemd[1]: Unit pure-ftpd.service entered failed state.
Sep 17 16:16:51 vps.ciamovies.com systemd[1]: pure-ftpd.service failed.

[TrevorH]

We do not ship /sbin/pure-ftpd via any package that CentOS provides. Nor do any of the reputable repos that I have installed. You need to ask the people that supplied it for support.

The distro ftp server is vsftpd not pureftpd.