ftp error 500 OOPS: vsf_sysutil_recv_peek while connecting to vsftpd

Recently, after configuring the vsftpd server running in CentOS 5 in several small ec2 instances as per the earlier post , I was not able to connect to vsftpd in one server from my ftp client. It throws the error:

500 OOPS: vsf_sysutil_recv_peek

The solution for this problem is to load capability module:

$ modprobe capability

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September 11th, 2008 | Posted in AWS, Troubleshooting | 6 Comments