On Fri, 2004-09-03 at 16:01, Nina Pham wrote: > attachment is vsftpd.conf. The chroot lines are commented out. With this > file, vsftpd runs fine, but if uncommented line > chroot_local_user=NO > chroot_list_enable=YES > chroot_list_file=/etc/vsftpd.chroot_list (This is set by default if > chroot_list_enable=YES > > then after starting vsftpd, /sbin/service vsftpd status will give error > message *"vsftpd dead but subsys locked". > *Any idea? > My vsftpd.conf file attached works fine and chroots everyone but those listed in the chroot_list_file I had the same message you have when I had settings wrong in the conf file and had to carefully check file names and paths. IIRC it was the path/name/permissions of the chroot_list_file that caused the error for me. **************************** [root@goliath vsftpd]# cat /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf anonymous_enable=YES local_enable=YES write_enable=YES local_umask=022 dirmessage_enable=YES xferlog_enable=YES connect_from_port_20=YES xferlog_std_format=YES chroot_local_user=YES chroot_list_enable=YES chroot_list_file=/etc/vsftpd.chroot_list pam_service_name=vsftpd userlist_enable=NO listen=YES tcp_wrappers=NO ************************
