Why can't start my vsftpd on debian?

Posted on August 8, 2015

dpkg -l vsftpd Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Architecture Description ++±==============-============-============-================================= ii vsftpd 2.3.5-3 amd64 lightweight, efficient FTP server

/etc/init.d/vsftpd start Starting FTP server: vsftpd. root@debian:/home/debian7# /etc/init.d/vsftpd status vsftpd is not running

netstat -nlap |grep .21|more tcp 0 1 192.168.1.100:45145 216.58.221.106:80 SYN_SENT
4704/firefox
tcp 0 1 192.168.1.100:45163 216.58.221.106:80 SYN_SENT
4704/firefox
tcp 0 1 192.168.1.100:45164 216.58.221.106:80 SYN_SENT
4704/firefox
tcp 0 1 192.168.1.100:45157 216.58.221.106:80 SYN_SENT
4704/firefox
tcp 0 1 192.168.1.100:42463 159.106.121.75:443 SYN_SENT
4704/firefox
tcp 0 1 192.168.1.100:45140 216.58.221.106:80 SYN_SENT
4704/firefox
tcp 0 1 192.168.1.100:45153 216.58.221.106:80 SYN_SENT
4704/firefox
tcp 0 0 192.168.1.100:44982 121.18.239.246:80 ESTABLISHED 4704/firefox
tcp 0 1 192.168.1.100:42468 159.106.121.75:443 SYN_SENT
4704/firefox
udp 0 0 0.0.0.0:821 0.0.0.0:*
1918/rpcbind
udp 0 0 0.0.0.0:41219 0.0.0.0:*
3283/avahi-daemon: udp6 0 0 :::821 :::*

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