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EHCP VSFTPD Fix
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EHCP VSFTPD Fix

JeffreyJeffrey Member
edited November 2013 in General

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

Comments

  • 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.

  • perennateperennate Member, Host Rep

    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.

    1. Download the proper vsftp package for your Debian based system. http://packages.debian.org/hu/sid/amd64/vsftpd/download for 64-Bit and http://packages.debian.org/hu/sid/vsftpd for 32-Bit.
    2. Scroll down to the download section on the page and right click and copy the given download URL.
    3. Open up your SSH client and enter the following:
      wget http://linkgoeshere.com
      dpkg -i vsftpd_version.deb
      echo "allow_writeable_chroot=YES" >> /etc/vsftpd.conf
      service vsftpd reload
    4. 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.

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