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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Re: FTP question
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2000-04-10 20:51:37
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On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 09:34:00AM -0700, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> On Sun, 09 Apr 2000, Dawit A wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Doesn't ABORT work for you ?  If you send 'abor' to the FTP server, it is
> > supposed to force it to abort the current action.  You would then get a
> > response back from the remote server which is not always the same response.
> > Here is a little excerpt I got from RFC 956 on aborting of course I have no
> > idea if this will work for you :)))
> 
> I can imagine that aborting gives problems in conjunction with passive mode 
> ftp. Isn't the control connection used as data-connection in passive mode?

I think there are two different connections even in passive mode.

It's two different sockets in the code, and grep ftp /etc/services says:
ftp-data        20/tcp
ftp             21/tcp

Anyway, I'll try it out right now - thanks to everybody for the help !

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