Hi, apologies for being a bit of a newb. I am trying out a CentOS server after using Ubuntu for a little while. I have installed vsftpd and when I do service vsftpd start I get a failed message.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. My settings are:

anonymous_enable=NO
ascii_download_enable=YES
ascii_upload_enable=YES
chroot_list_file=/etc/vsftpd/chroot_list
chroot_local_user=YES
connect_from_port_20=YES
dirmessage_enable=YES
listen=YES
local_enable=YES
local_root=public_html
local_umask=022
log_ftp_protocol=YES
ls_recurse_enable=YES
pam_service_name=vsftpd
syslog_enable=YES
tcp_wrappers=YES
use_localtime=YES
userlist_enable=YES
write_enable=YES
xferlog_enable=YES
xferlog_std_format=NO

I kinda bodged them together from various guides on the internet so I have no doubt I will have missed something or added something incorrectly.

Thanks again

well what you've missed is the logs telling you why it failed. look in /var/log/messages