Linux Admin Zone » vsftp ec2 http://linuxadminzone.com Adding more reasons to celebrate Open Source. Wed, 09 May 2012 10:17:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 ftp error 500 OOPS: vsf_sysutil_recv_peek while connecting to vsftpd http://linuxadminzone.com/ftp-error-500-oops-vsf_sysutil_recv_peek-while-connecting-to-vsftpd/ http://linuxadminzone.com/ftp-error-500-oops-vsf_sysutil_recv_peek-while-connecting-to-vsftpd/#comments Thu, 11 Sep 2008 06:52:32 +0000 jagbir http://linuxadminzone.com/?p=24 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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