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From: John Burt <jburt@skognet.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: wuftpd/ftpd dead processes
Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 00:33:28 -0500
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To: "Andrew J. Doane" <adoane@eagle.ais.net>

Andrew J. Doane wrote:
> 
> Anyone have the experience of hanging ftpd's?  IE, a user disconnects without
> quiting, or something to that nature and the ftpd doesn't terminate.
> 
> Someone posted a perl script to search and destroy, but I lost it.
> (Its also a hack not a fix.)
> 
> If you have the program laying around, please let me know... or any info
> would e welcomed.

A comment: make sure they're not doing a "nohup ftp"