Package: pure-ftpd Version: 1.0.46-1 The pure-ftpd package is installing the configuration file /etc/pure- ftpd/pure-ftpd.conf.
This file isn't used by the init-script - see journal: Sep 02 16:04:35 nermal pure-ftpd[15002]: Starting ftp server: Running: /usr/sbin/pure-ftpd -l pam -E -u 1000 -J HIGH -O clf:/var/log/pure- ftpd/transfer.log -8 UTF-8 -B So any changes due this file are useless. So please either remove this file to avoid confusions for the users or change the init-script to use it 😉