On 10/24/05, scott <scott.list at 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. -- Stand before it and there is no beginning. Follow it and there is no end. Stay with the ancient Tao, Move with the present.