reopen 472329 thanks On my system vsftpd is configured to run from inetd, and I have the same error, because /var/run/vsftpd/empty doesn't exist. In the init.d script there is:
CHROOT="/var/run/vsftpd/empty" # [...] case "${1}" in start) Check_standalone_mode || exit 0 echo -n "Starting FTP server: " [ -d "${CHROOT}" ] || mkdir -p "${CHROOT}" So if not in standalone mode, nothing creates $CHROOT, all the less that /var/run is cleaned at reboot. Sure, the line creating $CHROOT could be moved before the check for the standalone mode, but it would be a weird hack, and would cause a race condition with the start-up of inetd. Regards, -- Pierre Ynard "Une âme dans un corps, c'est comme un dessin sur une feuille de papier." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org