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EHCP VSFTPD Fix
Anyone here ever heard of tried EHCP Control Panel for Debian and Ubuntu? I installed it today on a production server of mine and I am running into issues with starting the service, vsftpd. I have searched Google and the results come from a few years ago, which doesn't help.
root@free1:~# service vsftpd start
Starting FTP server: vsftpd.
root@free1:~# service vsftpd status
vsftpd is not running
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Probably an issue with your vsftpd.conf. Can't say I have heard of EHCP, but since you have shell access you can troubleshoot vsftpd in the normal way. First thing I would do is run /usr/sbin/vsftpd (or whatever your binary is) and see if it throws an error.
tail /var/log/vsftpd.log or something like that. EHCP is kind of annoying though.
Oddly enough, I have found a fix for this, shortly after posting this. I will share it here for easier find for people searching for this fix via Google, since LET seems to be indexed very well.
wget http://linkgoeshere.com
dpkg -i vsftpd_version.deb
echo "allow_writeable_chroot=YES" >> /etc/vsftpd.conf
service vsftpd reload
root@hostname:~# service vsftpd status
vsftpd is running
This fix should apply for Debian 7x and the latest supported Ubuntu release for the latest EHCP control panel release. Enjoy.