Re: vsftpd hung up

["Tom N. Eastgard" <tom eastgard org>]

Bob McClure Jr wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 11:56:49AM -0700, Tom N. Eastgard wrote:
>
> > Rick Stevens wrote:
> >
> > > 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"
> >
> > I just checked...there were none to delete.  te
>
> Look for a lockfile in /var/lock/subsys/.
That did it...thanks a heap!  te