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Hello,
I'm trying to run an FTP server using vsftpd. When I type in vsftpd /etc/vsftpd.conf in the terminal I get the following output:

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500 OOPS: vsftpd: not configured for standalone, must be started from inetd

I have edited /etc/vsftpd.conf so vasftpd can run standalone and I still get that message.

And when I type

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ftp localhost

I get

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ftp: connect: Connection Refused

I don't know what to do at this point and vsftpd tutorial haven't helped me very much. I would greatly appreciate any help.
Thanks.

If you get a connection refused, then vsftpd is not running. Try running this as root:

/etc/init.d/vsftpd start

then FTP localhost. If you are still having problems with vsftp, I heavily recommend proFTPd. It has plenty of tutorials around and it's quite simple too...

Regards!

sorry for the late reply but I was out of town and didn't have access to the Internet.
I tried running /etc/init.d/vsftpd start under root and it didn't work. I would really like to make vsftpd work. I don't have an init.d folder in /etc
Thanks for you reply and again, any help would be greatly appreciated.