[Gllug] ftp sessions don't time out for a long time

[Walid Shaari]

On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 02:22, Formi wrote:
> 
> Hi people,
> 
>  I have this issue that has been nagging me for quite a long time, one
>  of the users of the server uploads quite a lot of files from a 
>  btopenworld dial-up account. He says he closes the session properly, he is running
>  W2k, I don't remenber the name of the ftp client...
> 
>  It is now 2:20 am, he disconnected his machine 13 hours ago, but the connection still shows up. 
> 
>  19849 user1 0 2408  1640 S  0.0  0.9 ftpd: host213-1-136-176.in-addr.btopenworld.com: user1: IDLE 0:00
> 
>  If it helps the machine is running Red Hat 7.3, and the ftp server is wu-ftpd.
>   
>  Can somebody shed a light on why the session is not timming out?
> 
>  Another hint, this also happens with webmin connections. But not as often as the ftp connections, 
>  all being done by the same person.
1- I do not use either, but there are several timout directives in
wu-ftpd configuration files, have you checked those?

2- Is it certain specific clients/ general issue?

Walid


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