Subject: Re: ftpd never dies (again)
To: Jukka Marin <jmarin@pyy.jmp.fi>
From: Nathan J. Williams <nathanw@MIT.EDU>
List: current-users
Date: 03/27/1999 11:34:35
Jukka Marin <jmarin@pyy.jmp.fi> writes:
>
> I have over 110 ftpd processes sitting on one system at the moment.
> Isn't there ANY way of making ftpd's go away after some time of idling
> or something? I have keepalive enabled in /etc/hosts.allow but this
> doesn't seem to do the trick. Is every NetBSD operator killing ftpd's
> manually or what? :-/
You can specify a timeout with something like this in
/etc/ftpd.conf:
timeout all 900 # 15 minutes
- Nathan