root@user-desktop:/etc# sudo /usr/sbin/service vsftpd restart
restart: Unknown instance:
2 Answers
A typical restart job will attempt to kill an old instance first. What is happening here is that there isn't an old copy to kill.
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Try this sudo /etc/init.d/vsftpd restart
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This isn't any more useful than using the full path to the 'service' script.– Thomas Ward ♦Dec 1, 2015 at 15:41