[CentOS] "vsftpd is dead but subsys is locked"

[Johnny Hughes]

On Sun, 2005-06-26 at 01:44 -0600, Draden wrote:
> If someone could give advice - I am running Centos 4 and on it I am
> running among other things vsftpd. Today I noticed the ftp services
> wasn't running, when I went to restart it it says it starts, but there
> is no pid for it. when I do a status on it, it gives a message saying
> "vsftpd is dead but subsys is locked" I have tried removing the lock
> file and no joy.
> I even just resorted to a reboot hoping that would clear the issue and
> to no avail
> 
> Draden

It could be just about anything (full disc, permissions problem, corrupt
executable, etc.) that is preventing the service from starting or
causing it to crash.

Look at the file /var/log/messages when it fails for an error.


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