Vsftp 500 OOPS: can only support ipv4 and ipv6 currently

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

The Vsftpd service doesn't start, and systemd returns this error:

Job for vsftpd.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status vsftpd.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
    • Vsftpd

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