[CentOS] alternate port for vsftp
Ray Leventhal
centos at swhi.net
Tue Jul 3 18:39:32 UTC 2007
Jim Perrin wrote:
> On 7/3/07, Ray Leventhal <centos at swhi.net> wrote:
>
>> I can't start the daemon. Running /etc/rc.d/init.d/vsftpd status shows
>> "vsftpd dead but subsys locked". This occurs each and every time unless
>> I remove listen_port= from the conf file and let the daemon use port 21.
>
> Are you using selinux? It restricts ftpd to port 21 iirc. You'll have
> to create a local policy allowing it to listen/connect on a port other
> than that.
>
Yes, Jim! SELinux is applied by default to this fresh install, I
believe. I'll hack at that next.
Thank you!
~R
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