500 OOPS: cannot open config file:/etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf

Question

I don't know why it cannot open config file.

$ ll /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 xuehui1 root 4182 Aug 20  2012 /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf //exits
$ sudo /usr/sbin/vsftpd /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf
500 OOPS: cannot open config file:/etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf

Here is vsftpd.conf,and it works well other linux machines(centos) but this one?Any help would be appreciated..

# Example config file /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf
# Allow anonymous FTP? (Beware - allowed by default if you comment this out).
anonymous_enable=NO
#
# Uncomment this to allow local users to log in.
local_enable=YES
#
# Uncomment this to enable any form of FTP write command.
write_enable=YES
#
# Default umask for local users is 077. You may wish to change this to 022,
# if your users expect that (022 is used by most other ftpd's)
local_umask=022
# Activate directory messages - messages given to remote users when they
# go into a certain directory.
dirmessage_enable=YES
#
# Activate logging of uploads/downloads.
xferlog_enable=YES
#
# Make sure PORT transfer connections originate from port 20 (ftp-data).
connect_from_port_20=YES
#
# If you want, you can have your log file in standard ftpd xferlog format
xferlog_std_format=YES
#
chroot_local_user=YES
pam_service_name=vsftpd
userlist_enable=YES
#enable for standalone mode
listen=YES
tcp_wrappers=YES
use_localtime=YES

Slaton

facing same issue.. any solution for this? – Stereotyped

sudo chown root /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf – Slaton

Answer 1

It is problem about file's owner. U should set correct owner for config /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf

sudo chown root /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf

Slaton

Oops...Not running service as sudo was the root cause. :p – Jobless

Answer 2

Use service vsftpd [start/restart/stop], not simply vsftpd [start/restart/stop]

Stilton

Answer 3

Depending on the OS, you may get the following error because of the incorrect command being run. For example, I ran the following command in Linux Mint 15:

sudo vsftpd restart

The output I received was:

500 OOPS: cannot read config file: restart

The correct command to restart vsftpd daemon was:

sudo restart vsftpd 

This gave the output:

vsftpd start/running, process 2231

Malek

Answer 4

My solution was to start vsftpd with the systemctl command.

sudo systemctl start vsftpd

Antonina

Answer 5

You are probably getting this error because of xinetd ftp is running.

The procedure mentioned below will resolve the following errors:

• vsftpd Error : 500 OOPS: could not bind listening IPv4 socket
• ncftpget Error : Server hangup immediately after connect

Follow the procedure mentioned below to rectify the error:

1. To View which ftp service is running use

   • $ lsof -i | grep ftp

2. To stop xinetd :

   • $ sudo service xinetd stop

3. After stoping xinetd restart your vsftpd service by typing :

   • $ /etc/init.d/vsftpd restart (Become root and run this command)

4. Also check the vsftpd.conf with this one

   • listen=YES

   • local_enable=YES

   • write_enable=YES

   • local_umask=022

   • dirmessage_enable=YES

   • use_localtime=YES

   • xferlog_enable=YES

   • secure_chroot_dir=/var/run/vsftpd/empty

   • pam_service_name=vsftpd

   • rsa_cert_file=/etc/ssl/private/vsftpd.pem

Brigitte

Answer 6

This did the trick for me

sudo restart vsftpd

Radio

Answer 7

On macOS, a freshly installed vsftpd process fails with that message. I have to tell it where my config file is:

$ sudo vsftpd/3.0.3/sbin/vsftpd /etc/vsftpd.conf & [1] 5735

Reamy

Answer 8

This worked for me:

sudo systemctl restart vsftpd.service

Pvc

Answer 9

I did this

sudo dpkg-reconfigure vsftpd

Sewan