vsftpd

[Stephen Carville]

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. 

I've never enocuntered that particualr problem but the follwing might 
help you narrow it down.

1. Make sure you are not trying to start vsftpd from xinetd.

2. Make sure "listen=YES" is set in /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf

3. Check if there is a lock file /var/lock/subsys/vsftpd.  If there is 
and YOU ARE SURE vsftpd is not running, delete it and try to restart vsftpd.

4. Check /var/log/vsftpd.log for error reports.

> Thanks in advance, 
> Andrew
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