vsftpd problems

[Michael Ryan]

Hi all: 

I still have vsftpd shutdown and connection problems. 
Being logged in as root, after issuing the ftp command followed by open localhost, I still receive connection refused. 
I also still receive shutting down (failed) after I have issued the /etc/init.d/vsftpd stop command. 
It seems that the only way to terminate the ftp server is by the kill command.  If my vsftpd application happened to get corrupted, what command can I run to try and fix or reinstall with out flattening and reinstalling everything again? 

Help! 
Thanks: 
Michael 
 
 
  
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