Bug 460164

Summary: Incorrect configuration file for the "vsftpd" ftp daemon
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.2 Reporter: Mats Rosengren <Mats.Rosengren>
Component: YaST2Assignee: Hendrik Vogelsang <hvogel>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID QA Contact: Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity: Critical    
Priority: P5 - None    
Version: Final   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Linux   
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Description Mats Rosengren 2008-12-18 12:16:19 UTC 
In the nominal "/etc/vsftpd.conf" as downloaded by YaST2 the setting is

listen=YES

But to run with SUSE/Linux one must necessarily set

listen=NO

because  "xinetd" monopolises the use of corresponding socket!

With the original "listen=YES" one gets 

"could not bind listening IPv4 socket" 

as message to the client and 

"EXIT: ftp status=1"

on the log file

"/var/log/xinetd.log"

Looking at different user forum I have seen that this incorrect default setting is creating a lot of problems!
Comment 1 Hendrik Vogelsang 2009-01-12 13:59:05 UTC 
/usr/share/doc/packages/vsftpd/README.SUSE