vsftpd

[Daniel Carrillo]

Meadows, Andrew wrote:

>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. 
>  
>
Hi.

Check /var/lock/subsys/vsftpd file. Delete it, and start vsftp service.

Cheers.