Confiruging VSFTPD on SuSE

[gtmtnbiker98]

Had a recent request to setup an FTP server and I want to utilize my existing Apache Web server, running SuSE 10. I already have VSFTPD installed; however, I'm lacking information on how to configure.

I did a search of the forums with no luck as well as Google. Anybody care to point me in the right direction. I tried to start the service by looking within /etc/init.d; however, no luck. YaST only references TFTP as an available network service.

TIA

[gtmtnbiker98]

Okay, I'm getting a little closer; however, I cannot get vsftpd to start. The configuration file is in /etc/init.d but it won't start.

Here is the input at the CLI:

linux:/ # /etc/init.d/vsftpd start
bash: /etc/init.d/vsftpd: No such file or directory
linux:/ # cd /etc/init.d
linux:/etc/init.d # vsftpd start
500 OOPS: vsftpd: cannot open config file:start
linux:/etc/init.d #

The vsftpd.conf file is properly located under /etc/init.d but vsftpd executable is not found under /etc/init.d - what have I done wrong? Any help will be welcomed. By the way, I'm running SuSE 10.

[gtmtnbiker98]

Okay, I'm getting a little closer; however, I cannot get vsftpd to start. The configuration file is in /etc/init.d but it won't start.

Here is the input at the CLI:

linux:/ # /etc/init.d/vsftpd start
bash: /etc/init.d/vsftpd: No such file or directory
linux:/ # cd /etc/init.d
linux:/etc/init.d # vsftpd start
500 OOPS: vsftpd: cannot open config file:start
linux:/etc/init.d #

The vsftpd.conf file is properly located under /etc/init.d but vsftpd executable is not found under /etc/init.d - what have I done wrong? Any help will be welcomed. By the way, I'm running SuSE 10.

[wraith]

2 weeks ago I setup my vsftpd server on my suse 10.0 machine. I had tons of trouble and can't remember what excatly i did to finally get it going..

check out..
http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/14689.html
http://www.ferdychristant.com/blog/articles/DOMM-6FJMR9

Also i remember reading something like xinetd and init conflict with eachother listening on the same port or something so vsftpd wont start. I killed xinetd i think and thats when i could finally start vsftpd..

anyways.. just wanted to help..

[gtmtnbiker98]

Thanks, I finally gave up making it work on SuSE and installed CentOS on another machine. I installed VMware and am running two Linux distros and Windows server on the same box. One of the instances is running CentOS 4.2 and vsftpd. Works like a charm, but the switch to a RHEL clone was a bit tricky since you have to assume full root for many of the CLI commands. SuSE is a lot easier in some regards; however, high-end server setups are easier on RHEL and the various clones.

Thanks for the feedback! One thing about Linux is that you never stop learning.

[gtmtnbiker98]

For those who may be searching for this topic in the future, I did figure out how to get vsftpd to work on SuSE. From the opensuse.org Web site:

Quick Setup
• Install vsftpd using YaST software management
• Enable vsftpd in xinetd. This can be done manually by editing /etc/xinetd.d/ and changing disabled = yes to disabled = no, or by using the following command
chkconfig vsftpd on
• Start xinetd if its not running already.
/etc/init.d/xinetd start
• Make sure that xinetd is started automatically at boot time
chkconfig xinetd on
• Check that FTP server is working fine. By default only anonymous login is allowed. Data in /srv/ftp/ is made publicly available.
• If neccessary, adapt firewall settings. With SuSEFirewall2 add ftp to FW_SERVICES_EXT_TCP, e. g. (with SSH reachable from the internet, too)
FW_SERVICES_EXT_TCP="ftp ssh"
• and if you need passive ftp or nat, change also resp.
FW_LOAD_MODULES="ip_conntrack_ftp ip_nat_ftp"

[k9fto]

I was following your post in order to figure out how to make the vsftpd server run and edited the files and yet when I try to start ftp I get the following error;

CD4SRV5:~ # ftp 10.2.118.46
Connected to 10.2.118.46.
500 OOPS: could not bind listening IPv4 socket

any insight would be greatly appreciated.

I am running SUSE 10 on a dell 3000 machine for an intranet only app

[stephanw]

CD4SRV5:~ # ftp 10.2.118.46
Connected to 10.2.118.46.
500 OOPS: could not bind listening IPv4 socket

Exactly the same happens on my server. If i do this:

rcxinetd stop
vsftp

as root, then vsftp is working... Could anyone help to run vsftp with xinetd?
Thank's. Steve

[bhenslin]

Exactly the same happens on my server. If i do this:

rcxinetd stop
vsftp

as root, then vsftp is working... Could anyone help to run vsftp with xinetd?
Thank's. Steve

I had the exact same problem when setting up vsftpd on 10.0[necessary because of old hardware].
open a terminal window
su [to become root if not already]
type the following:
killall vsftpd

Go to Yast>Network Services>Network Services(xinetd)>
Scroll down and you should see "ftp" under the services column
Select "ftp"
Click the "Toggle Status (on or off)" to turn it off.
Click "Finish"

Go back to your terminal window and type the following:
/usr/sbin/vsftpd &

[ddmacdon]

i likewise had a problem getting vsftp to run in opensuse. i tried everything in the above thread, and running it explcitly did work.. but, of course, it was only configured for anonymous access... reading through the /etc/vsftpd.conf file, i noticed a line Listen=YES

i disabled that line, killed the vsftpd, marked it an on in inetd.conf, and now it seems to run fine from there...

hope this helps

dan