This solution worked also for me (except I had to edit start-stop- daemon line by hand, I had problems with the diff file itself). But it is not merged in package until 2014-04-07.
Very sad. This bug leads to logrotate is killing proftpd. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1246245 Title: proftpd service failed to restart To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/proftpd-dfsg/+bug/1246245/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs