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I installed vsftpd on RedHat EL 4 but am having trouble getting it to work.
The vsftpd service acts like it starts, but it shuts down right after starting. # service vsftpd start Starting vsftpd for vsftpd: [ OK ] # service vsftpd stop Shutting down vsftpd: [FAILED] I'm using the default vsftpd.conf file. I installed vsftpd-2.0.1-5.i386.rpm Any ideas ![]() Scott |
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Jaysunn,
Here's the tail of the /var/log/messages from a vsftpd stop, start, stop, start. Jun 27 14:48:38 localhost in.rexecd[4058]: login from athlon as scott Jun 27 14:48:47 localhost su(pam_unix)[4091]: session opened for user root by scott(uid=500) Jun 27 14:49:20 localhost vsftpd: vsftpd shutdown failed Jun 27 14:49:32 localhost vsftpd: vsftpd vsftpd succeeded Jun 27 14:51:51 localhost vsftpd: vsftpd shutdown failed Jun 27 14:51:53 localhost vsftpd: vsftpd vsftpd succeeded The /var/log/secure dosen't record anything from the stop or start. Scott |
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Hey you can give this a try. I know you mentioned you are running the default config file. Here is my vsftpd.conf file on a working rhel4 ws ftp server. You can try replacing the default config file with this one.
Place this file in /etc/vsftp/vsftpd.conf Code:
c-76-19-15-133:ftp jasonralph$ cat vsftpd.conf # Example config file /etc/vsftpd.conf # # The default compiled in settings are fairly paranoid. This sample file # loosens things up a bit, to make the ftp daemon more usable. # Please see vsftpd.conf.5 for all compiled in defaults. # # READ THIS: This example file is NOT an exhaustive list of vsftpd options. # Please read the vsftpd.conf.5 manual page to get a full idea of vsftpd's # capabilities. # # Allow anonymous FTP? (Beware - allowed by default if you comment this out). anonymous_enable=YES # # Uncomment this to allow local users to log in. local_enable=YES # # Uncomment this to enable any form of FTP write command. write_enable=YES # # Default umask for local users is 077. You may wish to change this to 022, # if your users expect that (022 is used by most other ftpd's) local_umask=022 # # Uncomment this to allow the anonymous FTP user to upload files. This only # has an effect if the above global write enable is activated. Also, you will # obviously need to create a directory writable by the FTP user. #anon_upload_enable=YES # # Uncomment this if you want the anonymous FTP user to be able to create # new directories. #anon_mkdir_write_enable=YES # # Activate directory messages - messages given to remote users when they # go into a certain directory. dirmessage_enable=YES # # Activate logging of uploads/downloads. xferlog_enable=YES # # Make sure PORT transfer connections originate from port 20 (ftp-data). connect_from_port_20=YES # # If you want, you can arrange for uploaded anonymous files to be owned by # a different user. Note! Using "root" for uploaded files is not # recommended! #chown_uploads=YES #chown_username=whoever # # You may override where the log file goes if you like. The default is shown # below. #xferlog_file=/var/log/vsftpd.log # # If you want, you can have your log file in standard ftpd xferlog format xferlog_std_format=YES # # You may change the default value for timing out an idle session. #idle_session_timeout=600 # # You may change the default value for timing out a data connection. #data_connection_timeout=120 # # It is recommended that you define on your system a unique user which the # ftp server can use as a totally isolated and unprivileged user. #nopriv_user=ftpsecure # # Enable this and the server will recognise asynchronous ABOR requests. Not # recommended for security (the code is non-trivial). Not enabling it, # however, may confuse older FTP clients. #async_abor_enable=YES # # By default the server will pretend to allow ASCII mode but in fact ignore # the request. Turn on the below options to have the server actually do ASCII # mangling on files when in ASCII mode. # Beware that turning on ascii_download_enable enables malicious remote parties # to consume your I/O resources, by issuing the command "SIZE /big/file" in # ASCII mode. # These ASCII options are split into upload and download because you may wish # to enable ASCII uploads (to prevent uploaded scripts etc. from breaking), # without the DoS risk of SIZE and ASCII downloads. ASCII mangling should be # on the client anyway.. #ascii_upload_enable=YES #ascii_download_enable=YES # # You may fully customise the login banner string: #ftpd_banner=Welcome to blah FTP service. # # You may specify a file of disallowed anonymous e-mail addresses. Apparently # useful for combatting certain DoS attacks. #deny_email_enable=YES # (default follows) #banned_email_file=/etc/vsftpd.banned_emails # # You may specify an explicit list of local users to chroot() to their home # directory. If chroot_local_user is YES, then this list becomes a list of # users to NOT chroot(). #chroot_list_enable=YES # (default follows) #chroot_list_file=/etc/vsftpd.chroot_list # # You may activate the "-R" option to the builtin ls. This is disabled by # default to avoid remote users being able to cause excessive I/O on large # sites. However, some broken FTP clients such as "ncftp" and "mirror" assume # the presence of the "-R" option, so there is a strong case for enabling it. #ls_recurse_enable=YES pam_service_name=vsftpd userlist_enable=YES #enable for standalone mode listen=YES tcp_wrappers=YES Code:
rm /var/lock/subsys/vsftpd Code:
tail -n1000 /var/log/messages | grep vsftpd Jaysunn |
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Jaysunn,
I tried your vsftpd.conf, but no change. I assume the path should have been /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf What should the file permissions be on /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf? I tried 777 but it's still acting the same. I tried removing /var/lock/subsys/vsftpd, but this also had no effect. What run levels should I be using? I simply did a "chkconfig vsftpd on" Below chkconfig lists what I have. #chkconfik -- list vsftpdBelow is the tail of the "/var/log/messages | grep ftp". It doesn't look helpful, but maybe there's something missing? Best Regards, Scott # tail -n1000 /var/log/messages | grep ftp |
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Hello Mtman,
Sorry to here that you are still not able to start the vsftpd daemon. For your questions. /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf is the correct location for the vsftpd configuration file. As for the permissions. For the file vsftpd.conf, the user permissions on my server are read, write for user. Here is the file: Code:
[root@server1 vsftpd]# ls -lah total 52K drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Jun 22 14:00 . drwxr-xr-x 78 root root 12K Jun 22 15:00 .. -rw------- 1 root root 4.1K Feb 24 2006 vsftpd.conf [root@server1 vsftpd]# Code:
[root@server1 vsftpd]# chkconfig --list vsftpd vsftpd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off [root@server1 vsftpd]# Code:
[root@server1 vsftpd]# rpm -qa | grep vsftpd vsftpd-1.2.1-3E.6 [root@server1 vsftpd]# Code:
[root@server1]# rpm -e vsftpd-1.2.1-3E.6 For installation just change directory to where the rpm is located and issue a: Code:
rpm -ivh vsftpd-1.2.1-3E.6.i386.rpm Jaysunn |
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hey man,
can you please try the follwings? Code:
nmap <your IP address> Code:
nmap 192.168.0.1 you can also try the following command, Code:
ps -aux |grep ftp |
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Simply type the following on screen and see if you get any error:
Code:
vsftpd
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Vivek Gite Linux Evangelist |
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Nixcraft,
By using vsftpd I found a couple errors with in my vsftpd.conf file. There was a typo and an unrecognized variable. vsftpd only reports the first error, so it took a couple attempts to get it clean. I'm not sure why the default and the example from Jaysunn didn't work? Maybe I had the file permission wrong at that time. I tried ftp and it's working Thanks to everyone, Scott |
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