greetings today i was expanding my knowledge of vsftpd on a low traffic CentOS 4 production environment server i have fyi, i was working on learning to setup a chroot environment by the simple editing of /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf so, as i normally do when i start making changes i did this cd /etc/vsftpd/ cp -a vsftpd.conf bak-vsftpd.conf then i made the edits in /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf that i needed to make for testing a chroot env for some users and saved my work then i did this service vsftpd stop service vsftpd start and to my amazement when i did a ps ax that i saw the vsftpd process had taken bak-vsftpd.conf as it's default config file and looked something like this 8890 pts/0 S 0:00 /usr/sbin/vsftpd /etc/vsftpd/bak-vsftpd.conf questions... known issue? can anyone duplicate? is it a bug?????? or a feature??? ;-> thanks and kind regards, - rh -- Robert Hanson - Abba Communications Computer & Internet Services (509) 624-7159 - www.abbacomm.net