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So you're following the tutorial at The Perfect Server - CentOS 5.4 x86_64 [ISPConfig 3] and when you get to installing Pure-FTPD you get FAILED on start, and see

May 10 08:09:58 pimp pure-ftpd: (?@?) [ERROR] Unable to switch capabilities : Operation not permitted

in the logs.  Well, the answer is at hand.  Rather than looking through countless google entries to find the answer buried on page three or four, just go here, where the folks at newart-design.net have put together the answer. Make sure to yum install first, that way you can chkserv on and use /etc/init.d to control.