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
>
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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.
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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