vsftpd won't work with port 21

corpus_delicti · 10-11-2003, 02:10 AM

Hello,

I've working on getting an ftp server working on my computer using vsftpd running stand alone. Everything works fine when i set "listen_port=10021" However, i get an error when i set "listen_port=21" The error i receive is "500 OOPS: could not bind listening socket".

Could someone please help me to get vsftpd to work with port 21?
I am using vsftpd version 1.1.3 running on Red Hat 9, and I have my computer so it will allow incoming ftps on port 21 in the security level configuration for red hat.
Thanks

Yaki · 10-11-2003, 02:27 AM

may be any other ftp daemons are running ???...

corpus_delicti · 10-11-2003, 02:43 AM

i don't think any are, but how would i find out?

corpus_delicti · 10-11-2003, 12:18 PM

ok, using nmap i discovered that port 21 is indeed in use, but i don't know what program is using it or how to shut it down.

Yaki · 10-12-2003, 12:24 AM

try "killall -9 inetd"...then try to start vsftpD again

...
read manual page for inetd,("man inetd")
and you don't need to scan your ports with nmap,
use "netstat -nat"

corpus_delicti · 10-14-2003, 03:37 PM

thanks