Re: Connection closed by remote host

[Patrick Townsend <townsend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rob,

If is the AS/400 FTP server that is timing out, you can change this value 
to increase it. Use the CHGFTPA command and increase the inactivity timeout.

Patrick

At 04:22 PM 6/1/2000 -0500, Rob Berendt wrote:
>We have customers that are doing a quasi edi by ftp.
>They do the RCMD to submit a job to gather info.  They
>quit.  They delay loop.  The log back in and do the get.
>It's all in their scripting.The reason they have to quit
>and log back in is because the 400 thinks you aren't
>doing anything, call's the ftp session inactive and thus
>closes it.  I thought the time was closer to 5 minutes.
>
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>tgrider@arkansas.net on 06/01/2000 03:54:52 PM
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>I am calling a program using quote rcmd from my PC during an FTP Session and
>after about a minute, it comes back with the message "Connection closed by
>remote host" and the program either did not start or got some kind of error.
>How can I find out what the problem is?
>
>--
>Terry Grider
>tgrider@arkansas.net
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