On 10/24/05, scott scott.list@mlec.net wrote:
My vsftpd was working. I use it configured via xinetd and turn it off (disabled = yes) when I'm not using it to keep the bad guys from hammering on it.
Recently I upgraded to 4.2 (via yum update). That' the only change I know of on the system. And I didn't have any problems with it.
Today when I try to ftp, i enabled it in xinetd.d (with disable = no and a "service xinetd restart") But I can't connect. Well, I connect, but then I'm dropped with the reply:
500 OOPS: cannot open config file:/etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf
i've run across this error message also (although i'm not so sure if it's because of the 4.2 upgrade).
try doing a tail -f on /var/log/messages and see if you're getting SELinux errors ("avc denied") whenever you try to do something on vsftpd.
my vsftpd is working now though. what i did was to just reboot the system. i think it may have been that the SELinux labels on your vsftpd files have not yet been updated.
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