When I read a couple of FAQ's it told me I need to enable chroot on vsftp. I did that in the config, here is my config with chroot enabled:

#Here is my config:
#Example config file /etc/vsftpd.conf
#
# The default compiled in settings are fairly paranoid. This sample file
# loosens things up a bit, to make the ftp daemon more usable.
# Please see vsftpd.conf.5 for all compiled in defaults.
#
# READ THIS: This example file is NOT an exhaustive list of vsftpd options.
# Please read the vsftpd.conf.5 manual page to get a full idea of vsftpd's
# capabilities.
#
# Allow anonymous FTP? (Beware - allowed by default if you comment this out).
anonymous_enable=YES
#
# Uncomment this to allow local users to log in.
local_enable=YES
#
# Uncomment this to enable any form of FTP write command.
write_enable=YES
#
# Default umask for local users is 077. You may wish to change this to 022,
# if your users expect that (022 is used by most other ftpd's)
local_umask=022
#
# Uncomment this to allow the anonymous FTP user to upload files. This only
# has an effect if the above global write enable is activated. Also, you will
# obviously need to create a directory writable by the FTP user.
#anon_upload_enable=YES
#
# Uncomment this if you want the anonymous FTP user to be able to create
# new directories.
#anon_mkdir_write_enable=YES
#
# Activate directory messages - messages given to remote users when they
# go into a certain directory.
dirmessage_enable=YES
#
# Activate logging of uploads/downloads.
xferlog_enable=YES
#
# Make sure PORT transfer connections originate from port 20 (ftp-data).
connect_from_port_20=YES
#
# If you want, you can arrange for uploaded anonymous files to be owned by
# a different user. Note! Using "root" for uploaded files is not
# recommended!
chown_uploads=YES
chown_username=whoever
#
# You may override where the log file goes if you like. The default is shown
# below.
#xferlog_file=/var/log/vsftpd.log
#
# If you want, you can have your log file in standard ftpd xferlog format
#xferlog_std_format=YES
#
# You may change the default value for timing out an idle session.
#idle_session_timeout=600
#
# You may change the default value for timing out a data connection.
#data_connection_timeout=120
#
# It is recommended that you define on your system a unique user which the
# ftp server can use as a totally isolated and unprivileged user.
#nopriv_user=ftpsecure
#
# Enable this and the server will recognise asynchronous ABOR requests. Not
# recommended for security (the code is non-trivial). Not enabling it,
# however, may confuse older FTP clients.
#async_abor_enable=YES
#
# By default the server will pretend to allow ASCII mode but in fact ignore
# the request. Turn on the below options to have the server actually do ASCII
# mangling on files when in ASCII mode.
# Beware that turning on ascii_download_enable enables malicious remote parties
# to consume your I/O resources, by issuing the command "SIZE /big/file" in
# ASCII mode.
# These ASCII options are split into upload and download because you may wish
# to enable ASCII uploads (to prevent uploaded scripts etc. from breaking),
# without the DoS risk of SIZE and ASCII downloads. ASCII mangling should be
# on the client anyway..
#ascii_upload_enable=YES
#ascii_download_enable=YES
#
# You may fully customise the login banner string:
#ftpd_banner=Welcome to blah FTP service.
#
# You may specify a file of disallowed anonymous e-mail addresses. Apparently
# useful for combatting certain DoS attacks.
#deny_email_enable=YES
# (default follows)
#banned_email_file=/etc/vsftpd.banned_emails
#
# You may specify an explicit list of local users to chroot() to their home
# directory. If chroot_local_user is YES, then this list becomes a list of
# users to NOT chroot().
#chroot_list_enable=YES
# (default follows)
#chroot_list_file=/etc/vsftpd.chroot_list
#
# You may activate the "-R" option to the builtin ls. This is disabled by
# default to avoid remote users being able to cause excessive I/O on large
# sites. However, some broken FTP clients such as "ncftp" and "mirror" assume
# the presence of the "-R" option, so there is a strong case for enabling it.
#ls_recurse_enable=YES
pam_service_name=vsftpd
userlist_enable=yes
#enable for standalone mode
listen=YES
tcp_wrappers=YES






#Here is my chroot config:
#List of users to lock in their home directory.
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When ever I run vsftpd, it cant start. It says vsftp dead, but subsys locked. I can fix that by deleting the lock file and changing back the confi to its default form, without the chroot modifications. Am I doing something wrong? Please help. RedHat 9.0



I've even tried changing the banner option and it still freezes. Its like it gets stuck when I try to cahnge the config.

Ok, I just verified. Any changes made in teh config will cause it to crash when I issue a restart command on vsftpd. I tried disabling anonymous, adding a banner, and doing chroot. They all made it crash. Please help. No one has helped and I posted 3 times about this.

please do not use words like "urgent" in your thread titles, if anything people will actively ignore it... and how can you possibly have posted 3 times about this when you've only ever made 3 posts, 2 of which are here....

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If you have "major business" depending on this, you should probably be paying someone for quality tech support or admin, rather than relying on linuxquestions.org to do it for you. :P
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I always use webmin with the vsftp add-on.
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/w...1-1.noarch.rpm
or
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/s...n-1.121.tar.gz
the add-on
http://www.nodomainname.de/odtrack.p...min/vsftpd.wbm

I am not good with long text files......
Webmin allows a web based administration of about everything in Linux.

One pointer:
set webmin to NOT load at startup, only start webmin when you need to change something.
su to root>
/usr/bin/service webmin start
Log into webmin via Mozilla
http://127.0.0.1:10000 (local box port 10000)
make the changes
then>
/usr/bin/service webmin stop

This way you get the best of both:
ease of use with webmin, and the security of NOT running webmin constantly.

THANKS! LostPenguin. Nice try Kovacs