From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 3 11:59:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA15907 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 3 Oct 1996 11:59:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from trogon.kiwi.net (trogon.kiwi.net [207.155.57.66]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA15898 for ; Thu, 3 Oct 1996 11:59:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from trogon.kiwi.net (trogon.kiwi.net [207.155.57.66]) by trogon.kiwi.net (8.8.0/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA07559; Thu, 3 Oct 1996 12:03:34 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 12:03:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Christopher Taylor To: Cliff Addy cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hung (?) ftp processes In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 3 Oct 1996, Cliff Addy wrote: > We have a continuing problem using wu-ftpd. Logins (anonymous and not) > tend to leave active logins long after the connection is over. We're > talking hours later. Of course, this eventually maxes out the number of > connections and noone can get in. > > First of all, any clue why this happens? Second, I don't care if there > was a way I could kill ftp logins idle over, lets say, 10 minutes. Using > the -t and -T options has not affected this problem. I can kill an idle > telnet, I just don't know how to kill (or even find) these ftp logins. > They don't appear as processes, just connections in netstat. Yes, we have been experiencing the same problem you have. We are running WU-FTPD 2.4.2[ACADEM-11]. It seems to only occur, when the person loses carrier while online to ftp. I am not positive, because I have not extensively tested my theory.