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
>
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