[CentOS] vsftp

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On 2/5/07, John Hinton <webmaster at ew3d.com> wrote:
> I'm having an odd behavior with vsftp on all CentOS 4 servers... maybe 3
> too, but I'm not on those much.
>
> I am transferring in port mode as I've never managed to get passive to
> work with a firewall running.
>

THat is normally that the passive kernel module is not installed and
the RELATED, ESTABLISHED line is not high up in your firewall


> Anyway, this is what happens.
>
> During normal transfers with few files.. it works perfectly.
>
> During the transfer of like a large website with hundreds of files in
> various directories, from a fast connection, vsftp stalls out with a
> high degree of consistency. I thought this was happening only when I was
> doing this locally through the intranet, but I have now discovered our
> outside users are having the same problem when they are on a hi speed
> connection.
>

I would turn on debugging via the man page and see if it starts
logging anything.. then look in /var/log/messages etc or see where
vsftpd is stuck via top


> Does anyone have any ideas as to why this is happening?
>
> Thanks,
> John Hinton
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