During a server move from Slackware 13.0 to Slackware 64 13.0, I encountered the dreaded “500 OOPS: could not bind listening IPv4 socket” error from vsftpd.
As you may know, Slackware runs vsftpd (and some other services) from inetd: the internet “super-server.” After a bit of searching and some piddling around, I found a very simple solution: add the following to /etc/vsftpd.conf
listen=NO
FYI, I actually just uncommented the line listen=YES and changed YES to NO.
I post this in hopes that next time I encounter this issue, I’ll have the answer stored!
Happy ‘putering!
Stu…