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Subject: Re: ftp timeouts
In-Reply-To: <39A67FE0.E7101CDF@wmptl.com> from Nathan Vidican at "Aug 25, 2000
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Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 07:49:53 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>
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> While doing webpage development, I often work from a Windows machine, I
> enter a dos prompt and run ftp. I usually get a file, shell out of ftp
> using the msdos editor to edit said file, then re-upload the file.
> Example:
> 
> c:\temp
> ftp -i ftp3
> <login/pass entered, motd viewed>
> ftp> get xyz.cgi
> ftp> ! edit xyz.cgi
> <run MS-Dos Editor, make changes/etc, close editor>
> ftp>put xyz.cgi
> 
> The problem is, that ftp often times out before I leave the editor, and
> I'm forced to re-login and get back to where I was.
> 	My question is, is it somehow possible to change the idle timeout of
> ftpd, (using FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE)? If so, how?

From the ftpd(8) manpage:

     -t      The inactivity timeout period is set to timeout seconds (the de-
             fault is 15 minutes).

So, if you wanted to change the timeout to 30 minutes, you'd change
the line in inetd.conf which says

ftp    stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/libexec/ftpd       ftpd -l

to

ftp    stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/libexec/ftpd       ftpd -l -t 1800

Hope this helps

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