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Naive
Asked: 2013-09-24 21:48:20 +0800 CST

Why service restart fails with :-restart: Unknown instance:

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root@user-desktop:/etc# sudo /usr/sbin/service vsftpd restart    
restart: Unknown instance:
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2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    A typical restart job will attempt to kill an old instance first. What is happening here is that there isn't an old copy to kill.

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  2. Try this sudo /etc/init.d/vsftpd restart

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