From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 21 10:17:22 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA25951 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 21 Oct 1997 10:17:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from wopr.inetu.net (wopr.inetu.net [207.18.13.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA25945 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 1997 10:17:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dev@wopr.inetu.net) Received: from localhost (dev@localhost) by wopr.inetu.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA03613; Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:23:49 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:23:49 -0400 (EDT) From: Dev Chanchani To: Doug White cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ftpd hanging around In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Most of the FTP's seem to be in sbwait. They hang around indefinatly, or so it seems, they just seem to accumulate. I don't know what client the remote end is using, its a fairly public server. Doesn't ftp timeout though? I mean, can someone just leave an ftp server running? I thought it timed out and closed after 900 seconds? Thanks On Tue, 21 Oct 1997, Doug White wrote: > On Sat, 18 Oct 1997, Dev Chanchani wrote: > > > We run a dedicated FTP server for a client (about 3k - 4k connections per > > month). Many of the ftpd's don't die off after the transfer and keep > > hanging around. Anyone have a solution to this problem, or have any > > suggestions about what is causing it? > > How long do they hang around? What client is the remote using? what does > ps -ax report for their state? > > Sounds like someone isn't QUIT-ing and the ftpd server waits for the > connection to die. > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > > >