[arch-general] The vsftpd only starts at the second attempt

[Xavier]

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Patrick Brisbin<pbrisbin at gmail.com> 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