Subject: Re: ftpd sitting there forever?
To: Andreas Wrede <andreas@planix.com>
From: Jukka Marin <jmarin@pyy.jmp.fi>
List: current-users
Date: 03/02/1999 19:59:02
On Tue, Mar 02, 1999 at 12:55:01PM -0500, Andreas Wrede wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Jukka Marin wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> 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. 

Not using chrooted ftp.. so this is not the problem. :-I

Thanks, anyway.

  -jm