TCL FTP package

Hi All.

Just an FYI.

We have (hopefully!) just fixed an issue that’s been going on for some time.

We use a UPoC with the FTP package to grab appropriate files from a server and place them into another directory for further processing by Cloverleaf.

Every so often we had a crash (see example logs below).  Since no data was lost, there was little priority to fix this. After a recent ‘upgrade’, the number of crashes became unacceptable and we investigated further.

A change of timeout value lessened the number of timeouts, but a change from active to passive ensured that Cloverleaf recovered from the timeout.

The exit_log:

Terminated by signal 0, core dumped at Fri Mar 12 04:10:07 2010

The site log file:

error     error | E: Timeout of control connection after 2 sec.!

Unknown state “type_sent”

   while executing

“error “Unknown state “$ftp(State)”””

   (“default” arm line 2)

   invoked from within

“switch -regexp — $ftp(State) {

       list {

           fileevent $sock readable

::HandleList $s $sock]

           set ft…”

   (procedure “::ftp::InitDataConn” line 27)

   invoked from within

“::ftp::InitDataConn 0 sock131 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 20”

error     error | E: Timeout of control connection after 2 sec.!