On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Jukka Marin wrote:

> I see this on multiple systems (both NetBSD 1.3.3 and -current):
> 
> User logs in using ftp and the connection is never terminated properly.
> ftpd never exits (never = for several weeks) although the connection has
> been long dead.  I have to kill the ftpd's manually.  Some users manage
> to start some 50 ftpd's in one minute.
> 
> What am I doing wrong? ;)

Check if the binaries in ~ftp/bin are also from NetBSD 1.3.3. I had the
same problem as you describe and it went away after I 'upgraded' the
binaries used by chrooted ftpd processes. 

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