man page vs packaging discrepancies location of vsftpd.conf is different than the documentation [root@ftp init.d]# grep vs vsftpd | grep conf # config: /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf sites=(`ls /etc/vsftpd/*.conf`) [root@ftp init.d]# ------------ yet ----------- man vsftpd offers: OPTIONS An optional [configuration file] may be given on the command line. The default configuration file is /etc/vsftpd.conf. ---------------------------- man vsftpd.conf states: behaviour. By default, vsftpd looks for this file at the location /etc/vsftpd.conf. However, you may override this by specifying a comâ --------------------------- [root@ftp etc]# pwd /etc [root@ftp etc]# ls -al vsftpd* -rw------- 1 root root 125 Feb 19 00:48 vsftpd.ftpusers -rw------- 1 root root 361 Feb 19 00:48 vsftpd.user_list vsftpd: total 13 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Feb 19 01:05 . drwxr-xr-x 45 root root 4096 Feb 19 00:48 .. -rw------- 1 root root 3847 Feb 19 01:05 vsftpd.conf -rw------- 1 root root 3837 Feb 19 01:05 vsftpd.conf~ ================================================== so the man doco is wrong, as to Red Hat's packaging of the product.
Fixed in 1.2.0-3 and later.