Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2217 mails)

["Theo v. Werkhoven" <theo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thu, 13 Sep 2007, by ajohansson@xxxxxxxxxxx:

> On Thursday 13 September 2007 22:18:17 Theo v. Werkhoven wrote:
> > Weirdly enough, despite this check, sometimes it still happens that the
> > service doesn't restart, but only on an openSUSE10.0 install with
> > vsftpd-2.0.3-6
> > When I use the management script at home, on openSUSE 10.2 and with
> > vsftpd-2.0.5-24 the restart always succeeds the first time without a
> > hitch.
> 
> Off the top of my head, could it be that port 21 is still in use (by an open 
> session perhaps) so it can't bind to the port?

Not likely. And there would be an error in the logs if it was the
case afaik.

> But is this really necessary just because an account is added, deleted or 
> changed? vsftpd uses pam, so it should get updated properly just like any 
> other service

You know what? You were right.. I thought I read somewhere that a
restart was needed, but it isn't, a change in the db is implemented
immediate.
That saves me yet another headache.

Thanks Anders and Joe, have a good weekend.

Theo
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