500 OOPS: cannot open config file:/etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf

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I don't know why it cannot open config file.

$ ll /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 xuehui1 root 4182 Aug 20  2012 /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf //exits
$ sudo /usr/sbin/vsftpd /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf
500 OOPS: cannot open config file:/etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf

Here is vsftpd.conf,and it works well other linux machines(centos) but this one?Any help would be appreciated..

# Example config file /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf
# Allow anonymous FTP? (Beware - allowed by default if you comment this out).
anonymous_enable=NO
#
# Uncomment this to allow local users to log in.
local_enable=YES
#
# Uncomment this to enable any form of FTP write command.
write_enable=YES
#
# Default umask for local users is 077. You may wish to change this to 022,
# if your users expect that (022 is used by most other ftpd's)
local_umask=022
# Activate directory messages - messages given to remote users when they
# go into a certain directory.
dirmessage_enable=YES
#
# Activate logging of uploads/downloads.
xferlog_enable=YES
#
# Make sure PORT transfer connections originate from port 20 (ftp-data).
connect_from_port_20=YES
#
# If you want, you can have your log file in standard ftpd xferlog format
xferlog_std_format=YES
#
chroot_local_user=YES
pam_service_name=vsftpd
userlist_enable=YES
#enable for standalone mode
listen=YES
tcp_wrappers=YES
use_localtime=YES
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Solution

It is problem about file's owner. U should set correct owner for config /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf

sudo chown root /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf

OTHER TIPS

Use service vsftpd [start/restart/stop], not simply vsftpd [start/restart/stop]

Depending on the OS, you may get the following error because of the incorrect command being run. For example, I ran the following command in Linux Mint 15: 

sudo vsftpd restart

The output I received was:

500 OOPS: cannot read config file: restart

The correct command to restart vsftpd daemon was:

sudo restart vsftpd

This gave the output:

vsftpd start/running, process 2231

My solution was to start vsftpd with the systemctl command.

sudo systemctl start vsftpd

You are probably getting this error because of xinetd ftp is running.

The procedure mentioned below will resolve the following errors:

  • vsftpd Error : 500 OOPS: could not bind listening IPv4 socket
  • ncftpget Error : Server hangup immediately after connect

Follow the procedure mentioned below to rectify the error:

  1. To View which ftp service is running use

    • $ lsof -i | grep ftp

  2. To stop xinetd :

    • $ sudo service xinetd stop

  3. After stoping xinetd restart your vsftpd service by typing :

    • $ /etc/init.d/vsftpd restart (Become root and run this command)

  4. Also check the vsftpd.conf with this one

    • listen=YES

    • local_enable=YES

    • write_enable=YES

    • local_umask=022

    • dirmessage_enable=YES

    • use_localtime=YES

    • xferlog_enable=YES

    • secure_chroot_dir=/var/run/vsftpd/empty

    • pam_service_name=vsftpd

    • rsa_cert_file=/etc/ssl/private/vsftpd.pem

This did the trick for me

sudo restart vsftpd

On macOS, a freshly installed vsftpd process fails with that message. I have to tell it where my config file is:

$ sudo vsftpd/3.0.3/sbin/vsftpd /etc/vsftpd.conf & [1] 5735

This worked for me:

sudo systemctl restart vsftpd.service

I did this 

sudo dpkg-reconfigure vsftpd
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