pure-uploadscript of pure-ftpd is not working on ubuntu - ubuntu-14.04

Question

I am using the apt-get install the pure-ftp on ubuntu server 14.04.4
sudo apt-get install pure-ftpd
sudo pure-uploadscript -B -r /home/john/hello.sh
the hell.sh file, and it's able to run.
#!/bin/sh
echo "hello"
Then, I use FileZilla to upload the file. I can upload the file, but the script is not called. please help;

Answer 1

official doc
If you install the pure-ftpd server by apt-get, it may not give you the feature that you want to use. I checked the /var/run folder, some file are missing there. I complied the code with --with-uploadscript, it's working now.

Answer 2

I had to also compile from source, fortunately the install is not too heavy. It may be worth uploading the compiled files from your system to your mirror and just downloading and running make install. On the other hand, this works as well:
- name: install pure-ftpd from source
block:
- name: create required pure-ftpd dirs
become: yes
file:
path: /etc/pure-ftpd
state: directory
owner: root
mode: 0755
- name: install deps for building pureftpd
apt: pkg={{ item }} state=present
with_items:
- libssl-dev
- libpam0g-dev
- name: download and unpack pure-ftpd source
unarchive:
src: http://download.pureftpd.org/pub/pure-ftpd/releases/pure-ftpd-1.0.49.tar.gz
dest: /usr/local/src/
remote_src: yes
keep_newer: yes
register: source_unpack
- name: configuring pure-ftpd source with custom modules
command: "./configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin --libexecdir=/usr/libexec
--datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --sharedstatedir=/usr/com --localstatedir=/var --libdir=/usr/lib64
--includedir=/usr/include --infodir=/usr/share/info --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-virtualchroot --with-everything
--with-uploadscript --with-tls --with-pam"
args:
chdir: /usr/local/src/pure-ftpd-1.0.49
when: source_unpack|changed
register: pure_ftpd_configure
- name: make and install pure-ftpd
become: yes
shell: make && make install
args:
chdir: /usr/local/src/pure-ftpd-1.0.49
when: pure_ftpd_configure|changed
when: stat_result.stat.exists == False
tags:
- ftp