vsftpd

[Meadows, Andrew]

Hi all, 
I was wondering if anyone has had this issue and knows of a way to
resolve it. 
I have vsftpd installed, the latest version available from redhat. The
server(s) that are having this problemn are both version 3 and version 4
AS. 
I made a configuration change to dis-allow anonymous ftp access to the
vsftpd.conf file. I then recycled vsftpd with service vsftpd restart all
looked well, meaning ok's all around. 
Now I cannot ftp to these servers as accounts that I know have access
and telnets are showing the ftp port closed. If I do a service vsftpd
status I get "vsftpd dead but subsys locked". No other ftp services are
running on these servers. 
Any thoughs or clues as to how to resolve?
NO process is showing with ps -ef and netstat is showing the port
closed. 

Thanks in advance, 
Andrew
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