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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!news.larc.nasa.gov!news.msfc.nasa.gov!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!zombie.ncsc.mil!arlnews!apgea.army.mil.!info.usuhs.mil!cs.umd.edu!coopnews.coop.net!hops.entertain.com!usenet From: dwatson@abwam.com (Darryl Watson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: wuftpd/ftpd dead processes Date: 30 May 1996 16:26:04 GMT Organization: ABWAM, Inc. Lines: 17 Message-ID: <4oki6s$18p@hops.entertain.com> References: <4og0ee$gjt@news.ais.net> <4ojhd4$hka@innocence.interface-business.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp007.abwam.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.92.5 In article <4ojhd4$hka@innocence.interface-business.de>, j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) says: > >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.) > >Don't the -t and -T options to ftpd help here? > I am experiencing the same problems at my service, and the -[tT] args don't seem to do anything. I suspect a keepalive problem. I have written my own perl script to nuke hung ftp processes every hour.