VSFTPD problems

English Network/Internet
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I have upgraded a web server from 10.1 to 10.3. Everything works except VSFTPD. The ftp application does not come up and the only error message I see is “exit status of parent of /usr/sbin/vsftpd: 1”. I have searched the other logs and find no additional messages. Any hints as to what is going on here?

2

  1. Have you actually installed the vsftpd package?

  2. Have you configured vsftp.conf?

  3. Have you started up the vsftpd service, or alternatively, configured it to run under xinetd?

3

Yes the package is installed and I have been through the configuration of vsftpd.conf. I’ve run vsftpd for quite some time under 10.1. It is when I go to start the service that I get the error message in my first post. The results are the same starting it via inetd or manually, same error message.

4

Turnj on the debugging in vsftpd.conf and view the log when you try to connect.

5

Not really anything to see except that in another log I find that the modules “ip_nat_ftp” and “ip_conntrack_ftp” are missing and could not be loaded. A complete search of the systems fails to find these modules, any idea where they should have come from during the installation?? I am sure I have some other problems but it appears I need to solve this one first.

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They are called nf_nat_ftp and nf_conntrack_ftp these days I think.

Try these:

ldd /usr/sbin/vsftpd # or wherever it lives

That’ll tell you if there are any missing libraries.

/usr/sbin/vsftpd

and watch for messages.

7

O.K., some serious research on the web turned up the solutions.

  1. I did find the modules and got past that but I was right, it did not fix the big problem…

  2. After doing some more research I did find another post on the web that fixed the big problem. Per instructions there I editted /etc/xinetd.d/vsftpd and changed DISABLE = YES to DISABLE = No. A quick restart of xinetd and all works as it should.

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I thought you had also tried running it standalone without xinetd?