Same deal here.  It is just the separate jobs stay there forever and
won't go away until a re-boot.

It gets to a point where it starts pushing the JOBLIMIT.

Someone's sending me a good old fashioned script that pings thens sends
the output to a file to be read.  Then I can tell the job whether to
commence FTP or not.

Tracy Johnson
Measurement Specialties, Inc. 

BT







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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Summers [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
> Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 7:58 AM
> To: Johnson, Tracy; [log in to unmask]
> Subject: RE: [HP3000-L] Checking for FTP Success
> 
> 
> We had a similar problem when sending some print-file via FTP 
> to a specialised printer shop. 
> 
> The temporary solution we implmented was to put the FTP jobs in their
> own job queue rather than the default system job queue.    
> Thus, if the
> job hangs,  you don't hold up the rest of the schedule.  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion 
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Johnson, Tracy
> Sent: 22 January 2007 19:56
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [HP3000-L] Checking for FTP Success
> 
> I have some jobs that FTP outbound from out HP3000 and they 
> have been getting hung out to dry.
> 
> When I manually FTP (in a DOS window) the same Domain Name 
> the jobs are using it also fails.
> 
> The TIMEOUT parameter does not work.  (Someone said that one 
> has to get a connection before TIMEOUT will work in FTP, seems odd.)
> 
> I'm wondering if is there a way to check if a DNS site 
> accesible is working before one enters FTP?
> 
> Then I could sandwich my FTP commands between an IF THEN ... 
> ENDIF statement.
> 
> I mean I could PING, but does PING set a JCW if it succeeds 
> or anything like that?
> 
> Tracy Johnson
> Measurement Specialties, Inc. 
> 
> BT
> 
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