FreeBSD : vsftpd not configured for standalone, must be started from inetd

By | October 24, 2012

Getting this error message trying to start vsFTPd on FreeBSD?

500 OOPS: vsftpd: not configured for standalone, must be started from inetd

Then you missed the important part shown at the end of “vsftpd.conf”!

# If using vsftpd in standalone mode, uncomment the next two lines:
listen=YES
background=YES

Just uncomment “listen=YES”, “background=YES” and start the daemon again :

/usr/local/libexec/vsftpd /usr/local/etc/vsftpd.conf