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John Bawden <[log in to unmask]>
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John Bawden <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 31 Aug 2006 09:59:23 -0700
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Tony,

Try adding a LISTFILE filename,9 just before your PUT
command to see what process might be accessing the
file.

John Bawden
QualChoice

--- Tony Summers <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> That crossed my mind, but the files are actually
> built as TEMPorary
> files first and only once I have written to and
> closed the file in my
> Cobol program do I then issue the command to SAVE
> the file.  (The save
> command is issued immediately after the Cobol CLOSE
> statement). 
> 
> So the reading "process" should have be able to
> detect the file without
> any conflict.
> 
> I'm wondering whether there's some log file on the
> FTP server that's the
> cause of the "file accessed exclusively" error.
> Didn't think I had
> logging turned on. 
> 
> I'm not aware of any changes to our JINETD job or
> the relevant
> configuration files and the FTP transfer process has
> been stable for
> other 3 years !  
> 
> Don't think the HP3000s have been patched recently
> either. 
>  
> I'm putting in a work-around tonight to minimize the
> impact of the
> failure, but I really would prefer to know what's
> going wrong. 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: okappert [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
> Sent: 31 August 2006 17:40
> To: Tony Summers
> Cc: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: FTP between our 2 HP3000s failing
> intermittently
> 
> Tony:
> 
> At first glance, it seems that there is a timing
> issue.  The file being 
> read is opened in exclusive mode, meaning that maybe
> the file has not 
> been closed yet by the previous process (the file is
> still being written
> 
> to).
> 
> Olav Kappert.
> 
> Tony Summers wrote:
> 
> >We have several background jobs that transfer files
> between our two
> >HP3000s. 
> >
> >After several years of successful operation, they
> have started to
> report
> >"network" errors on a very infrequent basis.    It
> appears that the FTP
> >transfer (put) has been successful, but the FTP
> server is very
> >occasionally returning error #45 (file accessed
> exclusively) back to
> the
> >FTP client.
> >
> >Any suggestions ? I've checked the obvious (we're
> only running one copy
> >of the FTP transfer job).   
> >
> >O> l a
> > 1 
> > 2 File Transfer Protocol [A0012E08] (C)
> Hewlett-Packard Co. 2002
> >[PASSIVE SUPPO
> >RT]
> > 3 ftp> EXITONERROR
> > 4 ExitOnError mode on.  (FTPINFO 33)
> > 5 ftp> OPEN dr-hp-1.sw.corp
> > 6 220 HP ARPA FTP Server [A0012E09] (C)
> Hewlett-Packard Co. 2000 [PASV
> >SUPPORT]
> > 
> > 7 Connected to dr-hp-1.sw.corp (192.168.250.3). 
> (FTPINFO 40)
> > 8 ftp> USER MANAGER.SWIMS
> > 9 230 User logged on
> >10 Remote system type is MPE/iX
> >11 200 Type set to I.
> >12 ftp> TIMEOUT 30
> >13 Connection time-out value set to 30 seconds.
> (FTPINFO 49)
> >14 ftp> BINARY
> >15 200 Type set to I.
> >16 ftp> PUT X0967506.XLOG.SWIMS
> /SWIMS/XLOG/X0967506
> >17 200 PORT command ok.
> >18 150 File: /SWIMS/XLOG/X0967506 opened; data
> connection will be
> opened
> >19 200 PORT command ok.
> >20 150 File:
>
/SWIMS/XLOG/X0967506;REC=-2000,1,V,ASCII;DISC=2000000,8
> >opened; dat
> >a connection will be opened
> >21 552 File accessed exclusively. (FTPERR 45)
> >22 Data Transfer Request Failed.  (FTPERR 13)
> >23 221 Server is closing command connection
> >24 
> >25 END OF PROGRAM
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