Re: vsftpd hung up

[Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>]

Tom N. Eastgard wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Somehow I managed to get my vsftp daemon hung up: Status message is 
> "vsftpd dead but subsys locked".   This persists inspite of attempts to 
> restart it and repeated reboots.  I'm looking for suggestions on how to 
> unhang it...?  TIA, Tom

Try deleting any file in /var/run that has "vsftp" in the filename,
e.g. "/var/run/vsftpd.pid"
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