Solaris FTP error - Broken pipe

[gazzaman99]

I am trying to FTP files from a Sun Solaris platform to another platform using standard ftp. Part of the transfer is to ftp large files (~300Mb) and during the transfer of one of these files I get an intermittent error - ftp debug shows ftp error code 550 and the message "Broken pipe" after which the transfer aborts.

Has anyone seen this before - it seems to be intermittent (maybe happens on one out of 3 attempts) and isn't always related to the same file on the Solaris platform.

Is this related to the file size / transfer time or could there be a network issue ?

 

[daFranze]

do you ftp inhouse or do you send data over the internet using a ftp proxy?

what is your host? Which Hardware? Which OS Release? Did you check the networking and ftp Patches? Where did you find the "broken pipe" error?

Best Regards, Franz
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Solaris System Manager from Munich, Germany
I used to work for Sun Microsystems Support (EMEA) for 5 years

 

[julianbarnett]

Couple of obvious questions - is there sufficient space on the server to accommodate the file, and are there any other processes using this file at the same time. I have seen this where an automated process is picking up a file and renaming it before the file transfer has completed. Finally is this a direct connection or going via a firewall?