Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:59:01 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Dev Chanchani <dev@wopr.inetu.net> Cc: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ftpd hanging around Message-ID: <199710212059.NAA12120@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:23:49 EDT." <Pine.BSF.3.95q.971021132038.3549A-100000@wopr.inetu.net>
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>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? Sort of. If they are idle in the command loop, then they will time out. If they are stuck waiting to receive a file (perhaps from a machine that is no longer even powered on), they will not. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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