Installing vsftpd with yum

Arty Ziff · 03-13-2010, 03:51 PM

After giving it some thought, I decided to bail on proftpd, which I've used for some time.

I used

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# yum remove proftpd

But when I search around with locate proftpd, there seems to be a lot of "leftover" stuff. I'd like to remove all traces. Possible?

Now, I installed vsftpd:

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# yum install vsftpd

But when I try to start it, I get:

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# service vsftpd start
Starting vsftpd for vsftpd: [FAILED]

I tried to locate its conf file, but I get this:

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# /usr/sbin/vsftpd -V
500 OOPS: vsftpd: cannot open config file:-V

Though I know it's at:

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/etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf

Also, there does not seem to be a log file at /var/log/vsftpd.log or anywhere else.

What am I doing wrong?

troop · 03-13-2010, 04:06 PM

first parameter for vsftpd is config... execute just /usr/sbin/vsftpd or /usr/sbin/vsftpd /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf.
log should be set up in config file.
set background=NO in config to ensure that errors put to stdout.