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. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20050626/75446290/attachment-0005.sig>