Re: [cobalt-users] ftp time out

["Kevin Slaton" <kevin@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 23:43:27 -0700 (PDT), Swapana Ghosh wrote
> Hi
> 
> >>Do you mean you can connect fine to one user for FTP
> but not another? 
> 
> Yes. I can able to connect to this site as admin with
> root passwd.
> But when i am trying to connect with siteadmin user 
> it is giving  error as follows:
> 
> 230-
>  ****************** Site Administrator FTP
> instructions ******************
> 
>   This session begins in your user home directory at
> /users/molally
> Connection closed by remote host.
> 
> The peculiar matter is it is happening from only one
> place (still i 
> found one - may be more)  The same i can connect from
> my home PC ? But with the machine which i am unable
> to login now, i was able to connect yesterday... So if
> it is the DNS problem,
> then why i was able to connect yesterday but not
> today....Do you think that this is the chche problem
> of the particular machine?
> 
> Regards.
> -Swapna
> 

I encountered the same issue after performing some of those "Exceptionally 
Well Tested" (NOT!!!!) Sun Patches.  The issue ended up being a problem in my 
proftpd.conf file found in the '/etc' directory.  I can't remember what I did 
but I do remember having to visit this config file to resolve the issue.

Hope this helps

Kevin