Do you think this problem looks like this:
http://bugs.proftpd.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2792
Which prpftpd package are you using? This was fixed a while ago in Extras.
Paul.
Don't know how I missed that. Is there a way to have yum auto update?
Installed Packages
proftpd.i386 1.3.0-2.fc5 installed
Available Packages
proftpd.i386 1.3.0-5.fc5 extras