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User profile for user: Julio Tapia
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FTP service error "Cannot allocate Memory"

Hi everyone,

I have a customer using a Xserver Quad Core Intel Xeon and 2 Gb RAM, running Mac Os X Server 10.5.5. The FTP server is started, but the fields in the Advanced tab, on Settings, are empty; I can fill it, but when I tried to save send me this error "Try to refresh the view. Report problem to the administrator if it persists. (Cannot Allocate Memory)"

After this, if i click again in the FTP Service send me this message "Try to reconnect to server.local, or contact your network administrator (a back end component may be missing)", the service is stopped and the Start button disappears.

I try repairing permissions, but i got the same symptoms.

Is there any way to repair this problem or I should reinstall ? 😟

Thank you for your help

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.5.6)

Posted on Feb 13, 2009 6:40 AM

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User profile for user: rulox
rulox
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Mar 8, 2009 11:56 PM in response to Julio Tapia

Hello
I've had the same problem with a couple of servers. Most of the times a restart should help get rid of the problem. When that happens the service is only unavailable to Server Admin, that's why the status ball is silver (not grey), although the service is running.
If you can't reboot the server, you can play with the service settings within /Library/FTPServer/Configuration/
Hope this helps.
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User profile for user: MrHoffman
MrHoffman
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Mar 11, 2009 6:39 AM in response to Julio Tapia

Ignoring the fact that ftp is seriously evil and largely incompatible with security and with firewalls and far inferior to sftp and all the other reasons I don't use and don't recommend use of ftp, I'd probably look to fix this by shutting down ftpd, then shutting down Server Admin, then making a backup of the /library/ftpserver tree (likely via a zip archive, though cp -R would also work) and then manually replacing any file in the ftpd directory tree that has a .default variant with its .default variant; basically a brute-force reset of the configuration.

Would this work? Donno. But I'd try it.
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FTP service error "Cannot allocate Memory"

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