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VSFTPD zombie process not being terminated

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http://unix.stackexchange.com – I installed vsftpd and was in the process of configuring it. When I sent the vsftpd server stop command: sudo service vsftpd stop I received: stop: Unknown instance So I went ahead and uninstalled it and rebooted the system sudo apt-get remove --purge vsftpd when I 'stop' vsftpd now it says: vsftpd: unrecognized service If I try 'uninstalling' vsftpd its says: Package vsftpd is not installed, so not removed Issue: But I can still connect to my server using FTP client I cannot somehow believe there is a zombie? process that is not getting killed even after reboot. Can someone pl (HowTos)

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Submitted by Danial on 10/03/2012

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FTP vsftpd failed to start 19 weeks 4 days ago

OS ubuntu server

start vsftpd start: Job failed to start

syslog

Jan 4 02:49:34 svr01 kernel: [ 1537.765716] init: vsftpd pre-start process (2281) terminated with status 2

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What may be the problem ?

vsftpd.conf

I installed the VSFTPd 3.0.2 on Ubuntu 12.04 following this commands:

$ wget https://security.appspot.com/downloads/vsftpd-3.0.2.tar.gz

$ tar xzvf vsftpd-3.0.2.tar.gz $ cd vsftpd-3.0.2

$ make -j8

$ mkdir -p /usr/share/empty /var/ftp /usr/local/man/man5 /usr/local/man/man8

$ useradd -d /var/ftp ftp $ chown root.root /var/ftp $ chmod og-w /var/ftp

$ cp vsftpd.conf /etc

$ make install

So, to

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vsftpd[1]: PAM audit_log_acct_message() failed: Operation not permitted

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