vsftpd error: 500 00PS could not bind listening IPV4 socket......

thetotzky04 · 05-01-2009, 02:15 PM

Linux Experts,

I'm experiencing this error while I'm building a ftp server

[root@theo ~]# /usr/local/sbin/vsftpd &

500 OOPS: could not bind listening IPv4 socket
[8] 32542
[8] Exit 1 /usr/local/sbin/vsftpd

what will I do??

bathory · 05-01-2009, 04:13 PM

You have another process running and listening on port 21. Most likely it's xinetd. Take a look at /etc/xinetd.d/vsftpd and see if disable=no. If you want to run vsftpd standalone, then disable must be "yes". Restart xinetd if you change that value and try to start vsftp.

Regards