I figured it out folks. Thank you for the help. It ends up that in the vsftpd.conf file the IP address was hard coded and I recently changed IP, causing it to kill the process right as it started. On 6/26/05, Draden <draden at gmail.com> 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 > -- > "Delivery yesterday, Code today, Think Tomorrow" > -- "Delivery yesterday, Code today, Think Tomorrow"