Failed to start Vsftpd ftp daemon when disabling ipv6

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Systemd failed to start up vsftpd daemon at system start up.
Sep 20 11:15:19 xxxxxxxx systemd[1]: Starting Vsftpd ftp daemon...
Sep 20 11:15:22 xxxxxxxx systemd[1]: vsftpd.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1
Sep 20 11:15:22 xxxxxxxx systemd[1]: Failed to start Vsftpd ftp daemon.
Sep 20 11:15:22 xxxxxxxx systemd[1]: Unit vsftpd.service entered failed state.
Sep 20 11:15:22 xxxxxxxx systemd[1]: vsftpd.service failed.
  • Try to use the # systemctl start vsftpd command to start up vsftpd but failed.
# systemctl start vsftpd
Job for vsftpd.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status vsftpd.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
  • listen_ipv6=YES configured in /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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