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From: bert@miint.net
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Subject: ftp daemon processes don't terminate, even with the -t and -T options set
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>Number:         2713
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       ftp daemon processes don't terminate, even with the -t and -T options set
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Feb 11 14:50:02 PST 1997
>Closed-Date:    Sun Apr 26 01:33:12 PDT 1998
>Last-Modified:  Sun Apr 26 01:33:24 PDT 1998
>Originator:     Bert Beckmann
>Release:        2.1.5
>Organization:
Millennia Internet
>Environment:
FreeBSD bsd.miint.net 2.1.5-RELEASE FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE #0: Wed Jul 17 03:09:6
>Description:
FTP processes are starying around for many days, never timing out.
FTP version came with the 2.1.5 distribution. The same problem seems
to happen with 2.1.6.
>How-To-Repeat:
user ftp's in. Seems to be one type of user, possibly running on a
Macintosh

>Fix:
kill ftp processes by hand
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To: bert@miint.net
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/2713: ftp daemon processes don't terminate, even with the -t and -T options set
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 09:32:22 +0100

 As bert@miint.net wrote:
 
 > FTP processes are starying around for many days, never timing out.
 
 > user ftp's in. Seems to be one type of user, possibly running on a
 > Macintosh
 
 Perhaps the remote frontend is continuously issuing something like a
 DIR command?  I think the timeouts will only hit `idle' sessions.
 
 Can you tcpdump the connection?  If it's the above, it's intended
 behaviour, not a bug.
 
 -- 
 cheers, J"org
 
 joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
 Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: phk 
State-Changed-When: Sun Apr 26 01:33:12 PDT 1998 
State-Changed-Why:  
timed out 
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