On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Patrick Brisbin<pbrisbin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Not been successful. > > I'm seeing the same behavior on my system. the script correctly starts > vsftpd but doesnt get the PID immediately and puts up the FAIL message. > > changing /etc/rc.d/vsftpd like this fixes it for me: > > start) > stat_busy "Starting vsftpd FTP Daemon" > if [ -z "$PID" ]; then > /usr/sbin/vsftpd & > sleep 2 > PID=`... > > adjust sleep as desired > also see http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/6232
