Unable to start vsftpd service on CentOS 6.6

Question

I have installed vsftpd ftp server on CentOS 6.6 with yum, But I can't start vsftpd service.

When I run

/etc/init.d/vsftpd start, I get

Starting vsftpd for vsftpd:         [FAILED]

with no error,

and no relevant error is listed in my /var/log/messages but after installing vsftpd, I have this line in it :

ip-10-252-65-122 pure-ftpd[28837]: ([email protected]) [INFO] Timeout - try typing a little faster next time

I tried to google the error, but I found nothing. How can I solve the problem?

Solution 1

check to see if you have another FTP service currently running on the machine

netstat -anp | grep :21

if it is occupying the port, vsftpd can't start.

Solution 2

Are you using Multicraft ? if you use multicraft, the command netstat -anp | grep :21 will return

tcp        0      0 YOUR_IP_ADRESS:21            0.0.0.0:*                   LISTEN      14250/multicraft