ftp timeout in Red Hat 6.2

[pnwsurf]

How to I set the FTP timeout so that clients that are connected and authenticated can be inactive longer than what appears to be about 150 seconds?
RH 6.2
Apache 1.3.6

 

[danielhozac]

What FTP server are you using? //Daniel

 

[pnwsurf]

I'm using whatever FTP server is the default.

 

[pupu]

I think you are using wu-ftpd. Read

http://www.wu-ftpd.org/man/ftpaccess.html

(hint - search for 'timeout')

 

[pnwsurf]

I used the top command to figure out which ftp daemon was running. It's proftpd. I used the Proftpd documentation to set up the /etc/proftpd.conf file.

What was odd was
1) although I have 12 virtual sites, only 2 had any config data in /etc/proftpd.conf
2) there was no timeout information whatsoever in /etc/proftpd.conf, yet something, somewhere is causing a very short-fused timeout for FTP

Nevertheless, when I added TimeoutIdle and TimeoutNoTransfer settings to /etc/proftpd.conf, the problem went away.

Thanks, everyone, for asking questions. Those questions led me to enlightenment.

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