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changing the port on vsftpd

How would I change the standard port 21 on vsftpd to one I select, i.e., port 5544?

Add:
listen_port 5544

to vsftpd.conf and that should do it.

You can get all the config options using:
man vsftpd.conf

Hi David,

I tried that yesterday and it didn't work. I entered the port into /etc/services as well and in my FW, but it still only works on port 21 and not the other.

mmm - I've just ran some tests and it didn't work (to start with). When issuing a restart command to the service - the first time it stopped and started. From then on (I tried several times) it failed to stop but said it started.

I tried it on several ports including 110 (I don't have a pop server installed) and all failed.

I then rebooted into mandrake (same machine) to check something completely unrelated.

When I rebooted to RH9 I again changed the config file and issued a service restart command. This time it worked perfectly.

I have no idea why it failed the first time. It will now work on 5544, 110, 66 etc no problem.

All I can say is:
Try rebooting and change the config as the first thing you do. I'm not sure what could be causing this. If anyone has any idea I'd love to know - I'll do some digging myself if I have time.

no go for me :( I'm using RH9 and cloned the ftp setting in iptables with the port I wanted to use and added to /etc/services:

vsftpd 41202/tcp

still no luck...also rebooted to and tried both listen_port=41202 and listen_port 41202 (no = sign).

OK...got it working...I didn't have it in standalone mode and had to add the line "listen=YES". I guess I can't run it in xinetd and will have to put it somewhere in a startup rc...

Sorry - I should have said that. I don't run vsftpd from xinetd.

Have you had a look to see if there is a port option in your /etc/xinetd.d/vsftpd file?

yeah...tried it and it didn't work...I rely so much on xinetd and inetd that I forget how to start a file on bootup...can you tell me how you have yours start up?

You should have /etc/init.d/vsftpd if not it is below.

Just run:
chkconfig 35 vsftpd on

Assuming you want it to start in runlevels 3 & 5. Remember to stop it running from xinetd as well.

Code:

#!/bin/bash

#

# vsftpd      This shell script takes care of starting and stopping

#            standalone vsftpd.

#

# chkconfig: - 60 50

# description: Vsftpd is a ftp daemon, which is the program \

#              that answers incoming ftp service requests.

# processname: vsftpd

# config: /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf



# Source function library.

. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions



# Source networking configuration.

. /etc/sysconfig/network



# Check that networking is up.

[ ${NETWORKING} = "no" ] && exit 0



[ -x /usr/sbin/vsftpd ] || exit 0



RETVAL=0

prog="vsftpd"



start() {

        # Start daemons.



        if [ -d /etc/vsftpd ] ; then

                declare -a sites

                sites=(`ls /etc/vsftpd/*.conf`)

                site_count=${#sites[@]}

                index=0



                while [ "${index}" -lt "${site_count}" ] ; do

                        site=`basename ${sites[${index}]} .conf`

                        echo -n $"Starting $prog for $site: "

                                ( /usr/sbin/vsftpd ${sites[${index}]} &)

                                daemon true

                                RETVAL=$?

                        echo

                        [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/$prog

                        let "index = index + 1"

                done

        else

                RETVAL=1

        fi

        return $RETVAL

}



stop() {

        # Stop daemons.

        echo -n $"Shutting down $prog: "

        killproc $prog

        RETVAL=$?

        echo

        [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && rm -f /var/lock/subsys/$prog

        return $RETVAL

}



# See how we were called.

case "$1" in

  start)

        start

        ;;

  stop)

        stop

        ;;

  restart|reload)

        stop

        start

        RETVAL=$?

        ;;

  condrestart)

        if [ -f /var/lock/subsys/$prog ]; then

            stop

            start

            RETVAL=$?

        fi

        ;;

  status)

        status $prog

        RETVAL=$?

        ;;

  *)

        echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|condrestart|status}"

        exit 1

esac



exit $RETVAL