From: john.will@satalink.com (John Will) Subject: ftp dies, film at 11 Date: 2 Sep 1993 01:39:00 GMT
I have a problem with ftp over ethernet running a pl12 kernel and the
following ftp binary:
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 59579 May 10 08:37 ftp*
If you just fire it up and run normally, it will transfer fine, but take
the following scenario, assuming you're already logged into a remote host.
mget *
get user.doc.tar.gz?
OOPS, forgot to set binary mode, so I type a Ctl-C
Continue with mget?
If I type a N here, the system goes off into space and writes a core file
of whatever size it can, until it runs out of disk space. Even if it fails,
it shouldn't get that confused, right? :-) If I type a Y, I get a
segmentation fault and a normal 70-80kb core file, I could live with that.
In addition, even without this scenario, I have had several total lockups
with ftp in normal operation, after running and logging out normally, I'll
come back later and find the machine totally dead. I can run for days, but
if I use ftp, it's curtains many times. I have a friend that's installed
the even newer net-24 stuff, but he's still having problems, so I haven't
moved to it, is this a known problem? It seems to be a kernel problem,
since it gets confused as to where the memory it's dumping is, is this
a valid assumption, or am I all wet? :-)