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Chiggins
Asked: 2011-04-26 09:02:16 +0800 CST

/etc/vsftpd.conf file not found

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So I'm trying to setup vsFTPd on my Ubuntu server. I did aptitude install vsftpd to install the program, but when I go to /etc/ to look for the vsftpd.conf file, it isn't there. Is there a way that I can get it?

Thanks!

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3 Answers

    1. it's probably located in /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf
    2. find / -name vsftpd.conf
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  2. Here is the vsftpd.conf that is created by default in Ubuntu 10.10

    http://paste.org/pastebin/view/32278

    Not sure why you didn't get it, just copy and paste this into a file, save it to that path, and see where you get to.

    It will most likely log to /var/log/daemon.log with startup information, you can check that after doing

    service vsftpd restart

    This should get you started at least!

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  3. Best Answer

    I've experienced similar problems (form time to time). Mostly If I had a previous or a partial installation of a package, sometimes a new installation from apt-get or aptitude may miss some of the configuration files.

    To get the original /etc/vsftpd.conf I would do the following (assuming that you already have the deb file in /var/cache/apt/archives/ - in my example I'll do with natty's version)

    ~$ cd /tmp
~$ ar x /var/cache/apt/archives/vsftpd_2.3.2-3ubuntu4_i386.deb data.tar.gz
~$ tar xvf data.tar.gz ./etc/vsftpd.conf

    If you follow those steps you should end with your file at 

    /tmp/etc/vsftpd.conf
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