I am trying to get VSFTPD to listen on a particular IP. The ifconfig output for the host is:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX inet addr:aaa.bbb.ccc.26 Bcast:aaa.bbb.ccc.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: xxxx::xxx:xxx:xxxx:xxxx/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:223374 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:136053 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:22056304 (21.0 MiB) TX bytes:20211609 (19.2 MiB)
eth0:180 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX inet addr:aaa.bbb.ccc.180 Bcast:aaa.bbb.ccc.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
eth0:184 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX inet addr:aaa.bbb.ccc.184 Bcast:aaa.bbb.ccc.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:674 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:674 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:506130 (494.2 KiB) TX bytes:506130 (494.2 KiB)
I can start vsftpd with the default vsftpd.conf. However, if I add just one line:
listen_address=aaa.bbb.ccc.184
Then I get this behaviour.
/var/log/messages: Apr 26 09:18:19 inet06 vsftpd: vsftpd vsftpd succeeded
but # service vsftpd status vsftpd dead but subsys locked
There are no further log messages and I cannot see where else to look for clues as to what is going on. Can anyone help. I get the digest version of this list so replies to both the list and directly to myself are greatly appreciated.
Regards, Jim
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