From: "nick" <drehinsi@xxxxxxxxx> > Hi, > > Can anyone help me trying enable vsftpd back to it normal state? > ftp was working before but since I was editing the vsftpd.conf I've > broken vsftpd, getting an error; vsftpd dead but subsys locked. > > I forget to take a backup of the vsftpd.config so I had to repalce the > file from ftp://vsftpd.beasts.org/users/cevans/untar/vsftpd-2.0.3/vsftpd.conf > > Still cannot get ftp to work, my next option is to > unistall/re-install, does anyone know how I can unistall vsftpd or > maybe fix vstftpd error? If the other suggestions do not work I just saw this a couple days ago on the test installation I did on my laptop. I looked into /etc/xinetd.d and turned on the gssftp option hoping it was a sane tool. It appears it is an ftp client that uses kerberos authentication, hence is useless for my immediate needs. I turned it back off. And tried a service vsftpd start incantation. It failed. Silly me, I forgot to restart xinetd first. So gssftp was still listening on the required port. It's bad enough I failed the restart. That it took 15 minutes for me to figure out my gaffe is, for me, inexcusable. I should know better. {^_-} Joanne
