Blog O Stu » vsftpd http://bovitron.com/blogostu STUpidity and other STUff Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:43:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 vsftpd and the dreaded “500 OOPS: could not bind listening IPv4 socket” http://bovitron.com/blogostu/2010/01/18/vsftpd-and-the-dreaded-500-oops-could-not-bind-listening-ipv4-socket/ http://bovitron.com/blogostu/2010/01/18/vsftpd-and-the-dreaded-500-oops-could-not-bind-listening-ipv4-socket/#comments Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:52:56 +0000 Stu http://bovitron.com/blogostu/?p=7 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…

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