vsftpd service failed to start

hi,
i am using RHEL 5 and i am not able to on the vsftp

i have tried to on the vsftp service using command

service vsftpd start

Starting vsftpd for vsftpd: [FAILED]

i am posting the content of my /etc/xinetd.d/vsftpd file

# description: The vsftpd FTP server serves FTP connections.
# it uses normal, unencrypted usernames and passwords for auth
service ftp
{
disable = no
socket_type = stream
user = root
server = /usr/sbin/vsftpd
wait = no
nice = 10
}

here is vsftpd.conf

 
# Example config file /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf
#
# The default compiled in settings are fairly paranoid. This sample file
# loosens things up a bit, to make the ftp daemon more usable.
# Please see vsftpd.conf.5 for all compiled in defaults.
#
# READ THIS: This example file is NOT an exhaustive list of vsftpd options.
# Please read the vsftpd.conf.5 manual page to get a full idea of vsftpd's
# capabilities.
#
# Allow anonymous FTP? (Beware - allowed by default if you comment this out).
anonymous_enable=YES
#
# 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
#
# Uncomment this to allow the anonymous FTP user to upload files. This only
# has an effect if the above global write enable is activated. Also, you will
# obviously need to create a directory writable by the FTP user.
#anon_upload_enable=YES
#
# Uncomment this if you want the anonymous FTP user to be able to create
# new directories.
#anon_mkdir_write_enable=YES
#
# Activate directory messages - messages given to remote users when they
# go into a certain directory.
dirmessage_enable=YES
#
# The target log file can be vsftpd_log_file or xferlog_file.
# This depends on setting xferlog_std_format parameter
xferlog_enable=YES
#
# Make sure PORT transfer connections originate from port 20 (ftp-data).
connect_from_port_20=YES
#
# If you want, you can arrange for uploaded anonymous files to be owned by
# a different user. Note! Using "root" for uploaded files is not
# recommended!
#chown_uploads=YES
#chown_username=whoever
#
# The name of log file when xferlog_enable=YES and xferlog_std_format=YES
# WARNING - changing this filename affects /etc/logrotate.d/vsftpd.log
#xferlog_file=/var/log/xferlog
#
# Switches between logging into vsftpd_log_file and xferlog_file files.
# NO writes to vsftpd_log_file, YES to xferlog_file
xferlog_std_format=YES
#
# You may change the default value for timing out an idle session.
#idle#
# You may change the default value for timing out a data connection.
#data_connection_timeout=120
#
# It is recommended that you define on your system a unique user which the
# ftp server can use as a totally isolated and unprivileged user.
#nopriv_user=ftpsecure
#
# Enable this and the server will recognise asynchronous ABOR requests. Not
# recommended for security (the code is non-trivial). Not enabling it,
# however, may confuse older FTP clients.
#async_abor_enable=YES
#
# By default the server will pretend to allow ASCII mode but in fact ignore
# the request. Turn on the below options to have the server actually do ASCII
# mangling on files when in ASCII mode.
# Beware that on some FTP servers, ASCII support allows a denial of service
# attack (DoS) via the command "SIZE /big/file" in ASCII mode. vsftpd
# predicted this attack and has always been safe, reporting the size of the
# raw file.
# ASCII mangling is a horrible feature of the protocol.
#ascii_upload_enable=YES
#ascii_download_enable=YES
#
# You may fully customise the login banner string:
#ftpd_banner=Welcome to blah FTP service.
#
# You may specify a file of disallowed anonymous e-mail addresses. Apparently
# useful for combatting certain DoS attacks.
#deny_email_enable=YES
# (default follows)
#banned_email_file=/etc/vsftpd/banned_emails
#
# You may specify an explicit list of local users to chroot() to their home
# directory. If chroot_local_user is YES, then this list becomes a list of
# users to NOT chroot().
#chroot_list_enable=YES
# (default follows)
#chroot_list_file=/etc/vsftpd/chroot_list
#
# You may activate the "-R" option to the builtin ls. This is disabled by
# default to avoid remote users being able to cause excessive I/O on large
# sites. However, some broken FTP clients such as "ncftp" and "mirror" assume
# the presence of the "-R" option, so there is a strong case for enabling it.
#ls_recurse_enable=YES
#
# When "listen" directive is enabled, vsftpd runs in standalone mode and
# listens on IPv4 sockets. This directive cannot be used in conjunction
# with the listen_ipv6 directive.
listen=YES
#
# This directive enables listening on IPv6 sockets. To listen on IPv4 and IPv6
# sockets, you must run two copies of vsftpd whith two configuration files.
# Make sure, that one of the listen options is commented !!
#listen_ipv6=YES
 
pam_service_name=vsftpd
userlist_enable=YES
tcp_wrappers=YES
_session_timeout=600

here is the last few lines of the /var/log/messages

Jan 29 10:14:43 linuxserver setroubleshoot: SELinux is preventing the ping from using potentially mislabeled files (2F746D702F73682D7468642D31323634373436313034202864656C6574656429). For complete SELinux messages. run sealert -l 61560219-e069-4a21-8594-c4a88b835a59
Jan 29 10:16:58 linuxserver xinetd[2756]: START: ftp pid=14614 from=192.168.1.6
Jan 29 10:17:01 linuxserver xinetd[2756]: EXIT: ftp status=1 pid=14614 duration=3(sec)
Jan 29 10:17:18 linuxserver xinetd[2756]: START: ftp pid=14694 from=192.168.1.6
Jan 29 10:17:21 linuxserver xinetd[2756]: EXIT: ftp status=1 pid=14694 duration=3(sec)
Jan 29 10:18:43 linuxserver setroubleshoot: SELinux is preventing the ping from using potentially mislabeled files (2F746D702F73682D7468642D31323634373436313034202864656C6574656429). For complete SELinux messages. run sealert -l 61560219-e069-4a21-8594-c4a88b835a59
Jan 29 10:30:52 linuxserver xinetd[2756]: START: ftp pid=17035 from=192.168.1.10
Jan 29 10:30:55 linuxserver xinetd[2756]: EXIT: ftp status=1 pid=17035 duration=3(sec)
Jan 29 10:48:50 linuxserver setroubleshoot: SELinux is preventing the ping from using potentially mislabeled files (2F746D702F73682D7468642D31323634373436313034202864656C6574656429). For complete SELinux messages. run sealert -l 61560219-e069-4a21-8594-c4a88b835a59
Jan 29 10:50:51 linuxserver setroubleshoot: SELinux is preventing the ping from using potentially mislabeled files (2F746D702F73682D7468642D31323634373436313034202864656C6574656429). For complete SELinux messages. run sealert -l 61560219-e069-4a21-8594-c4a88b835a59
Jan 29 11:01:08 linuxserver xinetd[2756]: START: ftp pid=22871 from=192.168.1.4
Jan 29 11:01:11 linuxserver xinetd[2756]: EXIT: ftp status=1 pid=22871 duration=3(sec)
Jan 29 11:01:11 linuxserver xinetd[2756]: START: ftp pid=22887 from=192.168.1.4
Jan 29 11:01:14 linuxserver xinetd[2756]: EXIT: ftp status=1 pid=22887 duration=3(sec)
Jan 29 11:01:14 linuxserver xinetd[2756]: START: ftp pid=22895 from=192.168.1.4
Jan 29 11:01:17 linuxserver xinetd[2756]: EXIT: ftp status=1 pid=22895 duration=3(sec)
Jan 29 11:01:28 linuxserver xinetd[2756]: START: ftp pid=22935 from=192.168.1.4
Jan 29 11:01:31 linuxserver xinetd[2756]: EXIT: ftp status=1 pid=22935 duration=3(sec)
Jan 29 11:01:31 linuxserver xinetd[2756]: START: ftp pid=22951 from=192.168.1.4
Jan 29 11:01:34 linuxserver xinetd[2756]: EXIT: ftp status=1 pid=22951 duration=3(sec)
Jan 29 11:01:34 linuxserver xinetd[2756]: START: ftp pid=22959 from=192.168.1.4
Jan 29 11:01:37 linuxserver xinetd[2756]: EXIT: ftp status=1 pid=22959 duration=3(sec)
Jan 29 11:01:37 linuxserver xinetd[2756]: START: ftp pid=22968 from=192.168.1.4
Jan 29 11:01:40 linuxserver xinetd[2756]: START: ftp pid=22984 from=192.168.1.4
Jan 29 11:01:40 linuxserver xinetd[2756]: EXIT: ftp status=1 pid=22968 duration=3(sec)
Jan 29 11:01:43 linuxserver xinetd[2756]: EXIT: ftp status=1 pid=22984 duration=3(sec)
Jan 29 11:01:47 linuxserver xinetd[2756]: START: ftp pid=22998 from=192.168.1.4
Jan 29 11:01:50 linuxserver xinetd[2756]: EXIT: ftp status=1 pid=22998 duration=3(sec)
Jan 29 11:01:50 linuxserver xinetd[2756]: START: ftp pid=23014 from=192.168.1.4
Jan 29 11:01:53 linuxserver xinetd[2756]: EXIT: ftp status=1 pid=23014 duration=3(sec)
Jan 29 11:02:10 linuxserver xinetd[2756]: START: ftp pid=23074 from=192.168.1.4
Jan 29 11:02:14 linuxserver xinetd[2756]: EXIT: ftp status=1 pid=23074 duration=4(sec)
Jan 29 11:14:57 linuxserver setroubleshoot: SELinux is preventing the ping from using potentially mislabeled files (2F746D702F73682D7468642D31323634373436313034202864656C6574656429). For complete SELinux messages. run sealert -l 61560219-e069-4a21-8594-c4a88b835a59
Jan 29 11:51:05 linuxserver setroubleshoot: SELinux is preventing the ping from using potentially mislabeled files (2F746D702F73682D7468642D31323634373436313034202864656C6574656429). For complete SELinux messages. run sealert -l 61560219-e069-4a21-8594-c4a88b835a59
Jan 29 11:59:25 linuxserver xinetd[2756]: START: ftp pid=600 from=127.0.0.1
Jan 29 11:59:28 linuxserver xinetd[2756]: EXIT: ftp status=1 pid=600 duration=3(sec)
Jan 29 12:00:00 linuxserver xinetd[2756]: START: ftp pid=700 from=127.0.0.1
Jan 29 12:00:03 linuxserver xinetd[2756]: EXIT: ftp status=1 pid=700 duration=3(sec)
Jan 29 12:05:31 linuxserver xinetd[2756]: START: ftp pid=1687 from=192.168.1.4
Jan 29 12:05:34 linuxserver xinetd[2756]: EXIT: ftp status=1 pid=1687 duration=3(sec)
Jan 29 12:07:08 linuxserver setroubleshoot: SELinux is preventing the ping from using potentially mislabeled files (2F746D702F73682D7468642D31323634373436313034202864656C6574656429). For complete SELinux messages. run sealert -l 61560219-e069-4a21-8594-c4a88b835a59
Jan 29 12:17:10 linuxserver setroubleshoot: SELinux is preventing the ping from using potentially mislabeled files (2F746D702F73682D7468642D31323634373436313034202864656C6574656429). For complete SELinux messages. run sealert -l 61560219-e069-4a21-8594-c4a88b835a59
Jan 29 12:27:19 linuxserver xinetd[2756]: START: ftp pid=10489 from=192.168.1.4
Jan 29 12:27:22 linuxserver xinetd[2756]: EXIT: ftp status=1 pid=10489 duration=3(sec)
Jan 29 12:29:13 linuxserver setroubleshoot: SELinux is preventing the ping from using potentially mislabeled files (2F746D702F73682D7468642D31323634373436313034202864656C6574656429). For complete SELinux messages. run sealert -l 61560219-e069-4a21-8594-c4a88b835a59

THANX in advance

vsftpd can be set up either as a standalone service or as an on demand service. You have set it up as an on demand service but failed to comment out the LISTEN=Yes directive in /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf.

# When "listen" directive is enabled, vsftpd runs in standalone mode and
# listens on IPv4 sockets. This directive cannot be used in conjunction
# with the listen_ipv6 directive.
listen=YES

THANK you ...
it worked!!!!!:slight_smile:

what are the settings required if i want to run vsftpd in standalone service????