proFTPD and deleted /etc/proftpd/ folder

Please help. I have a server (Debian 6) in which somebody for some unknown reason manually removed the /etc/init.d/proftpd and /etc/proftpd/ folder, without uninstalling ProFTPD's. Of course, now ProFTPD server does not work. It can not be be (re)installed or configured.

How to properly remove it and re-install via console?

 

I would try apt-get remove proftpd and then apt-get install proftpd. If you need further help, please let us know.

Good luck!

 

Thank for replying. I already tryed with apt-get remove proftpd and recived:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'proftpd-basic' instead of 'proftpd'
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  proftpd-basic
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 30 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 4170 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 56142 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing proftpd-basic ...
invoke-rc.d: unknown initscript, /etc/init.d/proftpd not found.
dpkg: error processing proftpd-basic (--remove):
subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 100
configured to not write apport reports
                                      Errors were encountered while processing:
proftpd-basic
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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Then I tryed with reuploading missing files with the default ones. After I ran apt-get update and apt-get upgrade, and still did not get proFTPD working.
After tryed agin with the uninstall command which returned this:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'proftpd-basic' instead of 'proftpd'
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  proftpd-basic
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 4170 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 56142 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing proftpd-basic ...
: not found/proftpd: 2:
: not found/proftpd: 7:
: not found/proftpd: 9:
/etc/init.d/proftpd: 19: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting "in")
invoke-rc.d: initscript proftpd, action "stop" failed.
dpkg: error processing proftpd-basic (--remove):
subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 2
configured to not write apport reports
                                      insserv: warning: script 'K01proftpd' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: warning: script 'proftpd' missing LSB tags and overrides
Cannot start proftpd, please check syntax of your configuration file /etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf
Errors were encountered while processing:
proftpd-basic
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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If you can grant me access to your server I will fix this for you.

 

Thanks for your kind offer, unfortunately I am not authorized to do so.

 

try command - yum remove proftpd , yum install proftpd

 

Thank you for your response. Unfortunately, it did not solved the problem either. Finally I tried to find deleted files on the web. In the third attempt I found proper files. After a system restart it worked. Thank you all.

 

Hes running Debian/Ubuntu anyways so that wouldn't have worked, but I'm glad you got it solved

 

Thank you!