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Date:      Wed, 10 Apr 2002 20:55:31 -0400
From:      Scott <scottro@nyc.rr.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   vsftpd won't start
Message-ID:  <5.1.0.14.0.20020410205129.00c51780@pop-server.nyc.rr.com>

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I'm sure I'm missing something obvious, especially as I've found absolutely 
nothing on deja about this.

I installed vsftp.  The man page indicates that you can specify the 
configuration file on the command line.
It also says (and will say if you try to simply start it) that it should be 
started from inetd or xinetd.

Ok, so, I tried leaving the default install--where it puts the config file 
in /usr/local/etc rather than /etc and adding that to inetd---i.e in the 
ftp line /usr/local/bin/vsftpd  /usr/local/etc/vsftpd.conf

I got an error message of too many arguments.
I then copied over /usr/local/etc/vsftpd.conf to /etc/vsftpd.conf  and got 
the error message that it couldn't open the specified configuration file.

What am I missing here?  And please be kind, since as I said, I have the 
feeling it's something glaringly obvious--probably something I've looked at 
10 times on the man page that just hasn't registered.

TIA

Scott Robbins


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