VSFTPD Problem

[Xeon5]

As part of our Internet Technologies course we have to install apache on a unix machine and create our own private servers, however we are having problems setting up FTP to transfer the apache files, which will come from a Windows laptop with one running 7 and one running XP.

I have looked on the internet for help and on this forum and have tried everything suggested but still havent had no luck.

No matter what we do, everytime we try to start or restart vsftpd, it comes up with an error message with "failed" in red letters. (see below)

# /etc/init.d/vsftpd start
Starting vsftpd startproc: exit status of parent of /usr/sbin/vsftpd: 1
failed

If you require any more technical details then let me know.

Thanks for any help in advance.

[D-cat]

Probably a configuration issue with /etc/vsftpd.conf. I can't really tell with that error message; it's kind of just saying something went wrong without saying what.

I'll post my file (it gives access to my mounted public dirctory (you'll need to edit that) and to user directories with authentication)... maybe you can spot what's wrong with yours when contrasted against it.

You might also get a more helpful clue from
grep vsftpd /var/log/messages
assuming you're using syslog_enable=yes. If not, then check your defined log location.

# Example config file /etc/vsftpd.conf
# General Settings
write_enable=YES
dirmessage_enable=YES
nopriv_user=ftpsecure
ls_recurse_enable=YES

# Local FTP user Settings
local_enable=YES
chroot_local_user=YES

# Anonymus FTP user Settings
anonymous_enable=YES
anon_root=/mnt/hdb1
anon_world_readable_only=YES

# Log Settings
syslog_enable=YES
xferlog_enable=YES
setproctitle_enable=YES

# Transfer Settings
connect_from_port_20=YES
ascii_upload_enable=YES
ascii_download_enable=YES

# PAM setting. Do NOT change this unless you know what you do!
pam_service_name=vsftpd
listen=YES
ssl_enable=NO
pasv_min_port=30000
pasv_max_port=30100

[mikesd]

is vsftpd running and do you have the port open in suse firewall? Also /etc/hosts.deny denies access to everything by default so in /etc/hosts.allow you should allow your network's ip addresses.

[Xeon5]

Thanks for your help all, sorry for the late reply, it due to our lesson being only once a week. We did some research and managed to get it working by doing this:

$ chkconfig vsftpd on
$ /etc/init.d/xinetd start
$ chkconfig xinetd on
$ joe /etc/vsftpd.conf

Then in vsftpd.conf we changed:
write_enable = YES
local_enable = YES
chroot_local_user = NO