I am installing a new server and I have been adjusting my vsftpd settings when it suddenly stopped working. I noticed that the service vsftpd only worked if the vsftpd.conf was empty or deleted. So I decided to reinstall vsftpd using apt-get remove vsftpd and apt-get install vsftpd but the vsftpd.conf file which I deleted before because I wanted to start all over with the configartion keeps missing.
How can I reinstall vsftpd so I get back my vsftpd.conf file?
If you were using yum then yum remove vsftpd would remove the configuration files and installing it again would place the default vsftpd as well.
The package manager of Ubuntu works different. --purge needs to be issued to remove configuration files as well. If vsftpd is installed again the default vsftpd config file will be placed.
Note that the folder needs to be backed up before uninstalling it, as --purge will remove the configuration files
