vsftpd will not start

[MarioFromBelgium]

When I start vsftp my ubuntu 8 returns OK but connecting to the service fails. When I stop the service it says it can't find any running.
I have paste the return for your info.
Does anybody have an idea?

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administrator@server1:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/vsftpd start
* Starting FTP server: vsftpd [ OK ]
administrator@server1:~$ ftp localhost
ftp: connect: Connection refused
ftp> exit
administrator@server1:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/vsftpd stop
* Stopping FTP server: vsftpd No /usr/sbin/vsftpd found running; none killed.
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[RealPSL]

Have you changed the default configuration file for vsftpd? If yes can we see it?

[windependence]

After you start vsftp do the following command:


ps aux | grep vsftpd


Post the output here for us. I don't think the process is starting.


-Tim

[MarioFromBelgium]

This is what I get for the ps command

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administrator@server1:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/vsftpd start
* Starting FTP server: vsftpd [ OK ]
administrator@server1:~$ ps aux | grep vsftpd
1000 5005 0.0 0.2 3004 756 pts/0 R+ 21:33 0:00 grep vsftpd


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actually at first I didn't alter the conf. file but since that didn't work I altered it a little bit. I will copy it in a new post immediately!

[MarioFromBelgium]

Boys and girls,

this will probably look very stupid but since the conf file is larger than my terminal-window (I'm connacting from my portable through putty) I can't copy it.

I just decided to autoremove and install again vsftp so that I can be 100% surten that the conf file is not changed.
Again the same result :

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root@server1:~# sudo /etc/init.d/vsftpd start
* Starting FTP server: vsftpd [ OK ]
root@server1:~# ps aux | grep vsftpd
root 5282 0.0 0.2 3004 760 pts/2 S+ 22:19 0:00 grep vsftpd
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[RealPSL]

Does anything get written to the log file /var/log/vsftpd.log?

[windependence]

Looks like it's trying to start but I don't see any process ID so I can only conclude it did not start.

Like RealIPSL said, we should be looking at the log files.

-Tim

[MarioFromBelgium]

Guys,

I will check this evening the log-files. (I'm at work now administering more than a few win-servers, my UBUNTU is at home)

Yesterday,late in the evening I decided again to remove vsftpd and install proftpd...guess what... no problems!!

I'm doing this as a hobby with the intention to(one day soon) introduce the first UBUNTU-server at work; So I'm doing this primarily to learn. Therefor, this evening, I will again instal vsftpd and see what happens, I will post you the log-files!

[DSmidgy]

Hi,
in my case, the problem was in "ssl_enable=YES".

/var/log/syslog states:
server init: vsftpd main process (23493) terminated with status 1
server init: vsftpd main process ended, respawning

[DSmidgy]

I found out, that the certificate does not exist:
/etc/ssl/private/vsftpd.pem

[Fliegelflagel]

Try this:
sudo vsftpd
and look at what vsftpd tells about its problems. For example:
500 OOPS: SSL: cannot load RSA certificate
shows that it has problems reading the RSA certificate mentioned in the config file.

[duceduc]

Hi,
in my case, the problem was in "ssl_enable=YES".

/var/log/syslog states:
server init: vsftpd main process (23493) terminated with status 1
server init: vsftpd main process ended, respawning

Thank you!!! That was the answer to my problem.

[nucleuskore]

On my server I had the same error message of server respawning too quickly and status 1, and the server dying.

So I tried starting it by typing sudo vsftpd and got a message telling me that there was a problem with the boolean value of anonymous_enable

In my default vsftpd config file it was as follows:

# Allow anonymous FTP? (Disabled by default)
anonymous_enable=YES

Now this is correct as I wanted anonymous read-only access, but is wasn't working. Even deleting the line, typing it again and restarting the server did not work. So I simply commented it out so that it now looked like this

# Allow anonymous FTP? (Disabled by default)
#anonymous_enable=YES

and my server is now working ! I tried to delete the files as an anonymous user and it wont allow me, just as I wanted it. This is insane.