[techtalk] ftp problem

[stephanie1200 at netscape.net]

to the person who wrote with the pokey ftp on mandrake, i'd try checking for roadblocks during authentication.  take a look at /var/log/messages and see if it's giving you several messages before actually giving you a prompt or responding to what you tell it.  if you're using pam (i think mandrake does) you might be going through a series of stuff that maybe you don't need or is erroring out for some reason.  check the messages and then check /etc/pam.d/ftp to see what the chain of events is supposed to be, and see if you can match up the events and find out where the delay is, and start testing them one at time.  You probably already tried ftping from the box to the box (i.e. ftp from the box you're trying to get to) to rule out networking stuff, and i rely heavily on strace (records system calls) to find out goofy stuff.  i run it on top of the command and send the output to a file...like "strace -o /tmp/strace.out ftp mybox"

good luck
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