Hey guys,
I don’t know what has changed but today after having it working from the beginning, vsftpd stopped working, maybe an update broke it? I certainly have not changed anything on it.
All I have is a message saying INVALIDARGUMENT in /var/log/messages.
vsftpd.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=2/INVALIDARGUMENT
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Have you changed ipv4/ipv6 settings on your machine or any other network settings?
Check /etc/vsftpd.conf and see if LISTEN is set to YES and at the same time listen_ipv6 is set it YES, if it is, you need to disable listening to IPv6.
Also do a;
netstat -napl|grep -i :21
To see if something is already running and taking port :21 except your vsftpd.
Nope, but I just removed it and re-installed it, re-configured it and it works again.
On 2014-09-22 17:06, Miuku wrote:
> Check /etc/vsftpd.conf and see if LISTEN is set to YES and at the same
> time listen_ipv6 is set it YES, if it is, you need to disable listening
> to IPv6.
No, this is no longer true.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)
On 2014-09-22 23:03, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> On 2014-09-22 17:06, Miuku wrote:
>
>> Check /etc/vsftpd.conf and see if LISTEN is set to YES and at the same
>> time listen_ipv6 is set it YES, if it is, you need to disable listening
>> to IPv6.
>
> No, this is no longer true.
>
> # According to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=592850, the
> # vsftpd documentation is wrong. There is no need to run two copies to
> # have ftp on ipv4 and ipv6.
>
And it works in my system (using xinetd)
Telcontar:/etc/xinetd.d # nmap localhost | grep -i ftp
21/tcp open ftp
Telcontar:/etc/xinetd.d # nmap -6 localhost | grep -i ftp
21/tcp open ftp
Telcontar:/etc/xinetd.d #
It needs that “/etc/xinetd.d/vsftpd” has this entry:
FLAGS = IPv6 IPv4
which I added a minute ago; till I did, the nmap -6 call failed to get a
response on ftp. The old setting “listen_ipv6” i had in there does not work.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)