I know how it starts. It's a Listen server that is started at IPL.
On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 12:07 PM, Mark Post <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> On 5/6/2014 at 11:45 AM, Mark Pace <[email protected]> wrote: > > I > > look in the start script figure out where the messages should be. > > /etc/rc.d/vsftpd > > > > case "$1" in > > start) > > echo -n "Starting vsftpd " > > /sbin/startproc -l /var/log/rcvsftp.log $VSFTPD_BIN > > rc_status -v > > ;; > > > > Look for the log > > sles001:/etc # ls -al /var/log/rcvsftp.log > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jul 2 2010 /var/log/rcvsftp.log > > > > And it has nothing in it and hasn't been touched since 2010. > > There is also nothing in /var/log/messages or /var/log/vsftpd.log about > > this failure. > > > > Any idea why I don't have a log or what could be causing this error? > > First, make sure that you know how vsftpd is getting invoked. It could be > via the script in /etc/rc.d, or it could be via xinetd. On my system, it's > not started at all at the moment. > # chkconfig --list vsftpd > vsftpd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off > xinetd based services: > vsftpd: off > > There are several logging related options in the configuration file. By > default, /etc/vsftpd.conf has: > # Log to the syslog daemon instead of using an logfile. > # > syslog_enable=YES > > I would change that to NO. I would also uncomment > log_ftp_protocol=YES > xferlog_enable=YES > > But, it would likely be a better idea to use "yast ftp-server" to turn on > SSL/TLS and see what changes get made to the configuration file. > > > Mark Post > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > -- The postings on this site are my own and don’t necessarily represent Mainline’s positions or opinions Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
