[CLUE-Tech] Problem starting vsftp through xinetd

[Chris Greene]

When I try to connect to my vsftp server I get the following:

[root at linux chris]# ftp localhost
Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1).
500 OOPS: could not bind listening IPv4 socket

My vsftp file in xinetd.d is listed as:

service ftp
{
        socket_type        = stream
        wait                    = no
        user                    = root
        server                 = /usr/local/src/vsftpd-1.2.1/vsftpd
#     server_args         =
#     log_on_success  += DURATION USERID
#     log_on_failure   += USERID
        nice                     = 10
        disable                = no
}

I change disabled to "yes", restarted xinetd and ran:

[root at linux chris]# netstat -pa |grep ftp
returns nothing.  So at this point it looks like no other ftp server is
running. 

If I run "/usr/local/src/vsftpd-1.2.1/vsftpd &", the server starts and I'm
able to login.  

[root at linux chris]# /usr/local/src/vsftpd-1.2.1/vsftpd &
[1] 1076
[root at linux chris]# netstat -pa |grep ftp
tcp        0      0 *:ftp                   *:*                     LISTEN
1076/vsftpd

If I try to start the server again I get:

[root at linux chris]# /usr/local/src/vsftpd-1.2.1/vsftpd &
[2] 1079
500 OOPS: could not bind listening IPv4 socket

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Any ideas?  From the error it seems like xinetd.d is trying to start the
server again when I try to connect.