[Info-vax] preventing FTP from timing out

[glen herrmannsfeldt]

Phillip Helbig---undress to reply <helbig at astro.multiclothesvax.de> wrote:
>  HP TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS Alpha Version V5.4 - ECO 7

> ########################################################

> 421 Service not available, remote server timed out. Connection closed.
> 122054124 bytes sent in 07:56 (250.35 KiB/s)

> What causes this timeout?  (I thought one reason for hash was to keep
> things from timing out.)  The connection is otherwise OK, as far as I
> can tell. 

> Is there somehow I can increase the timeout?  At least if something is 
> actually being transferred, I don't want it to time out.

For the usual ftpd, it is the timeout with no commands being sent.

For linux ftpd, there is a timeout option in ftpd.conf, and also
a maxtimeout.

It shouldn't time out during a transfer, but it will if no more
commands are sent after then end. 15 minutes seems to be the
linux default.

-- glen