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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!news.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!bofh.dot!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!csnews!boulder!coopnews.coop.net!hops.entertain.com!usenet From: dwatson@abwam.com (Darryl Watson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: wuftpd/ftpd dead processes Date: 4 Jun 1996 16:07:45 GMT Organization: ABWAM, Inc. Lines: 27 Message-ID: <4p1n0h$jhm@hops.entertain.com> References: <4og0ee$gjt@news.ais.net> <4ougak$7ib@innocence.interface-business.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp008.abwam.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.92.5 In article <4ougak$7ib@innocence.interface-business.de>, j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) says: > >dwatson@abwam.com (Darryl Watson) wrote: > >> >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. > >Hmm, does this mean these $%&!ing web browsers do regularly send dummy >commands to the server?! They should be shot... > >Perhaps we have to add yet another opportunity to the ftp server now >to auto-close these otherwise idle connections. > I recant my previous suspicion. I am not exactly sure why this is happening. We started logging incoming and outgoing traffic on our server as a result of suddenly much higher FTP traffic, and that is when the ftp processes started to not go away when they were supposed to, so I don't know if it is a question of high FTP volume, or keepalives, or logging that is the culprit! :(