FTP hangs on Fedora 17. Same scripts works on AIX/Solaris/HP-UX and Redhat.

Ryan Robinson · 01-10-2013, 11:33 AM

ftp -n $ftpsrv
Connected to xyz(10.6.10.54).
220 Microsoft FTP Service
(... login stuff ...)
ascii
verbose
passive
prompt
ftp> ascii
200 Type set to A.
ftp> verbose
Verbose mode off.
ftp> passive
Passive mode off.
ftp> prompt
Interactive mode off.
(... setup directory locations ...)
ftp> mget *.?

...

and it fetches a random number of files before it hangs. The same script works on all of our other unix platforms (AIX/Solaris/HP-UX/Redhat).

Anybody encountered this or have any ideas?

Ryan Robinson · 01-10-2013, 12:18 PM

I have resolved the issue. Apparently either the setup of the server or Fedora17 has an issue with having passive mode turned off. By leaving it in passive mode I ran the script repeatedly with no more hangs.

If someone knows the reason this is an issue that knowledge would still be appreciated.

lleb · 01-10-2013, 06:14 PM

that is an issue on the server side. MS FTP (well IIS) does not play nice with pass.