No firewall is running on the machines.

[quote=“neilm, post: 37138, member: 24150”]has this been resolved? i checked all settings and can login to ftp with broswer and filezilla. but images stay in /images/dev until manually moved[/quote]

Tom Elliott’s post above fixed it for me. You have to edit /etc/vsftpd.conf and then restart the ftp services.

Yes, I did comment out the --picture line and that got me working for this issue. Thanks for the explanation. That makes sense.