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To: Dev Chanchani <dev@wopr.inetu.net>
cc: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: ftpd hanging around 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:23:49 EDT."
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:59:01 -0700
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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