Joe Wrote::
Looks to me that the permissions are not set up to allow access directly to the file.
as user root, can you edit said file ?I'm wondering if you may need to change permissions to the file.
Here's my set up: -rw------- 1 root root 4144 Aug 21 19:39 /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf
====================== Matt 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. ========================
Matt & Joe. Permissions appeared OK. I ever tried making the files 777 just to test, no luck. I uninstalled (yum remove) and reinstalled vsftpd. It did not change the files ownership or permission as far as I see, but now it's working (again).
Thanks for the replies!
Best, Scott