Comment out this conf line as first effort:
enable for standalone mode
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I have just installed VSFTPD on a Centos box and I set up an ftp user and password from root. When I try to restart VSFTPD i get:
Starting vsftpd for vsftpd: 500 OOPS: missing value in config file for: enable for standalone mode
Can anyone help please I show the /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf file below:
# without the DoS risk of SIZE and ASCII downloads. ASCII mangling should be
# on the client anyway..
#ascii_upload_enable=YES
#ascii_download_enable=YES
#
# You may fully customise the login banner string:
#ftpd_banner=Welcome to blah FTP service.
#
# You may specify a file of disallowed anonymous e-mail addresses. Apparently
# useful for combatting certain DoS attacks.
#deny_email_enable=YES
# (default follows)
#banned_email_file=/etc/vs
#
# You may specify an explicit list of local users to chroot() to their home
# directory. If chroot_local_user is YES, then this list becomes a list of
# users to NOT chroot().
chroot_list_enable=YES
# (default follows)
#chroot_list_file=/etc/vsf
#
# You may activate the "-R" option to the builtin ls. This is disabled by
# default to avoid remote users being able to cause excessive I/O on large
# sites. However, some broken FTP clients such as "ncftp" and "mirror" assume
# the presence of the "-R" option, so there is a strong case for enabling it.
#ls_recurse_enable=YES
pam_service_name=vsftpd
userlist_enable=YES
enable for standalone mode
listen=YES
tcp_wrappers=YES
"/etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf" 113L, 4365C 113,1 Bot
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by: gheistPosted on 2009-08-26 at 15:27:36ID: 25192913
What is in /etc/sysconfig/vsftpd ?
Other files you edited?
Versions?
Was yum involved in insalling?