vsftpd error in server greeting

[oot]

error in server greeting

Anyone know what this means?

vsftp worked fine before.

I still connect and authenticate ok.
Then errors out with above.

Thanks for your time.

d

[nitbix]

Check your ftpd_banner line in vsftpd.conf for maybe some strange chars or unclosed quotes.
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[oot]

That's the first place i looked.

I even commented it and still errors at server greeting.

[nitbix]

Hmm I wouldn't have any idea on what could be causing this.
Try unmerging vsftpd, rename vsftpd.conf to vsftpd.conf.2 and re emerge vsftpd.
You should have a clean working config to work on. If it doesn't work after that
probably it's a problem with some other underlying package.
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[oot]

Well, i told wget to use passive ftp and it works again.
I don't remember what i might have done that made the connection start failing, as it worked for quite awhile.
And i don't remember why i had wget using active ftp, either. I had it like that for awhile, too. (i don't remember changing that)

I often make /etc backups for 'just in case' cases, and i try to leave comments why i change something in a config.
I wish i had in this case.

Thanks for reply!
It's a good feeling, knowing this forum (you and other gentoo folk) can save me from my dumb ass attacks.