Could not bind listening IPv4 socket

Question

i did all the steps as shown in the INSTALL file of vsftpd . and finally ran this command

/usr/local/sbin/vsftpd &

i got this error :

[root@localhost vsftpd-2.0.5]# 500 OOPS: could not bind listening IPv4 socket

please help

Answer 1

Ok it is done . I added a line at the the end of vsftpd.conf file:

# This string is the name of the PAM service vsftpd will use. pam_service_name=vsftpd[1]

it is working now.

[1]: Aside: The "#" line is a comment, and optional, but it's generally good practice to have them in case you need to refer back