vsftpd won't start on red hat enterprise 5.7

[titley100]

Have you put anything in your tcp_wrappers config files, /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny? I don't know why that would be a problem, but it is one of the last things listed in your strace output.

Also, is there ANY output when you run /usr/sbin/vsftpd by itself?

EDIT: Is anything else already listening on the default FTP port (21)?

netstat -tulnp|grep :21

No I haven't put anything in these files.

When I run /usr/sbin/vsftpd there is no out put.

The out put of netstat -tulnp|grep :21 is:
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:21 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 4463/xinetd

Thanks

[atreyu]

So some other xinetd-controlled process is running and listening on port 21, I think that would cause vsftpd to fail to start.

As a quick test, try this to see if that is it:

service xinetd stop

Then make sure nothing is listening on that port:

netstat -tulnp|grep :21

Then fire up vsftpd:

service vsftpd start

Run the netstat command again and see if it is listening.

If that is it, then the culprit is probably gssftp (kerberized FTP server). You can see if it is enabled with:

chkconfig --list gssftp

If it is on, disable it with:

chkconfig gssftp off

FYI, netstat lists xinetd b/c xinetd is a master daemon that controls various network-related sub-daemons. Look in /etc/xinetd.d/ to see them all. Files in there are xinetd services and any file with disable = no is enabled and will be run when xinetd is started.

[titley100]

So some other xinetd-controlled process is running and listening on port 21, I think that would cause vsftpd to fail to start.

As a quick test, try this to see if that is it:

service xinetd stop

Then make sure nothing is listening on that port:

netstat -tulnp|grep :21

Then fire up vsftpd:

service vsftpd start

Run the netstat command again and see if it is listening.

If that is it, then the culprit is probably gssftp (kerberized FTP server). You can see if it is enabled with:

chkconfig --list gssftp

If it is on, disable it with:

chkconfig gssftp off

FYI, netstat lists xinetd b/c xinetd is a master daemon that controls various network-related sub-daemons. Look in /etc/xinetd.d/ to see them all. Files in there are xinetd services and any file with disable = no is enabled and will be run when xinetd is started.

Thank you so much mate it's working now. Many thanks !!!