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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
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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.