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OCI: vsftpd service fails to start "Failed to start Vsftpd ftp daemon."

edited Sep 23, 2023 1:48AM in Linux

APPLIES TO:

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Version N/A and later

Linux x86-64

Symptoms

vsftpd service fails to start on OL Instance

$ sudo systemctl start vsftpd 
Job for vsftpd.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See  "systemctl status vsftpd.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details. 


$ sudo systemctl status vsftpd 
  vsftpd.service - Vsftpd ftp daemon 
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/vsftpd.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled) 
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2023-09-20 07:21:31 GMT; 23s ago 
  Process: 312568 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/vsftpd /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf (code=exited, status=2) 
  Sep 20 07:21:31 hostname systemd[1]: Starting Vsftpd ftp daemon... 
  Sep 20 07:21:31 hostname vsftpd[312568]: 500 OOPS: run two copies of vsftpd for IPv4 and IPv6 
  Sep 20 07:21:31 hostname systemd[1]: vsftpd.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=2 
  Sep 20 07:21:31 hostname systemd[1]: vsftpd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. 
  Sep 20 07:21:31 hostname systemd[1]: Failed to start Vsftpd ftp daemon.

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