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Subject: Lost FTP on openVMS

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Name: mccrh
Date: May 13, 2004 at 10:16:10 Pacific
Subject: Lost FTP on openVMS
OS: openVMS V7.1
CPU/Ram: Alpha/256MB

Comment:

I have lost my FTP capability. We can no longer connect to FTP server from PC's running reflections. What needs to be running in openVMS to allow an FTP client to connect?

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Response Number 1

Name: Hakan Andersson (by HakAnd)
Date: May 13, 2004 at 23:57:02 Pacific
Subject: Lost FTP on openVMS

Reply: (edit)

The FTP-service needs to be ENABLED on VMS.
$ TCPIP SHOW SERVICE FTP
If it is DISABLED
$ TCPIP ENABLE SERVICE FTP
If it is gone.....
$ @SYS$STARTUP:TCPIP$CONFIG
under SERVER COMPONENTS you can ENABLE/START
FTP again.

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Response Number 2

Name: mccrh
Date: May 14, 2004 at 05:43:23 Pacific
Subject: Lost FTP on openVMS

Reply: (edit)

Thanks for the reply. I don't have TCPIP$CONFIG but have UCX$CONFIG. This utility has the ability to ENABLE/DISABLE FTP. The FTP server and client are ENABLED.
The FTP service is running since I can enter FTP and receive an FTP> prompt. When I try to connect an FTP session to itself
$ FTP> connect {myhost}
The system returns
%FTP-E-NETERR, I/O ERROR on Network Device
-SYSTEM-F-REJECT, connect to network object rejected
When I try a FTP connection from my PC via using Reflections, the following message is returned
The FTP server returned this error:
A connection cannot be established.
Please try again.
Any idea what I need to do to correct this problem?

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Response Number 3

Name: Hakan Andersson (by HakAnd)
Date: May 14, 2004 at 11:11:22 Pacific
Subject: Lost FTP on openVMS

Reply: (edit)

Post a
$ UCX SHOW SERVICE FTP/FULL
and try
$ UCX DISABLE SERVICE FTP
$ UCX ENABLE SERVICE FTP
and try again........

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Response Number 4

Name: mccrh
Date: May 14, 2004 at 13:25:14 Pacific
Subject: Lost FTP on openVMS

Reply: (edit)

Thanks again for the reply!
I've discovered that the FTP service is running and enabled even after a reboot but FTP will not work (Thanks for UCX SHOW SERVICE). If I execute UCX$FTPD_STARTUP.COM, I can connect via FTP from my PC. Unfortunately, my terminal from which I launched the UCX$FTPD_STARTUP.COM is now busy running the process and will not return a prompt. How can I launch this as a 'background??' process so it is always running. Better yet, which command file should be launching this during startup.

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Response Number 5

Name: Kelbell
Date: May 15, 2004 at 13:56:31 Pacific
Subject: Lost FTP on openVMS

Reply: (edit)

How about something like this:
$ run sys$system:loginout/detach-
/input=ucx$ftpd_startup.com-
/output=logfilespec-
/authorize-
/process_name="FTP Daemon"
where logfilespec must be a full file spec for the log file.

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Response Number 6

Name: Hakan Andersson (by HakAnd)
Date: May 16, 2004 at 23:46:01 Pacific
Subject: Lost FTP on openVMS

Reply: (edit)

That's ONLY a temporary workaround !!!
The FTP-service $ UCX SHOW SERVICE FTP/FULL
will use UCX$FTPD_STARTUP.COM to launch a
process to handle the FTPrequest. It also
have an inactivity-timeout (DEF=5 min). The
process dies after usage...... but will be
reused if another request is issued within
the timout.
Let's troubleshoot the problem.......
I have sent you a mail.

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