Hello Steve,

From what I could figure out,  HP3k is the client and you've a Linux FTP
server.

Any 4xx/5xx message is received from the server, in this case the Linux FTP
server and the FTP client faithfully relays it.  The message immediately
following it, viz. "SUCCESSFUL..." is an FTP client message - this message
has been observed in many situations, immediately following a 4xx/5xx error.

"... No space left on device" indicates either there is genuinely no space
left, or the FTP server (on Linux) has some problems writing.

The reason no "close or exit" appears in STDLIST is, once "Remote aborts the
connection", the FTP client's QUIT, EXIT or CLOSE commands make no sense -
it doesn't reach the server and hence can't get a server response.

Why you still manage to transfer some files in other groups is because,
after each CHGROUP, you are making a fresh FTP connection by running
FTP.ARPA.SYS.

I'm not sure why you have to close and reopen FTP connection for each
group - instead of doing "cd <GROUPNAME>" followed by "mput"; but then, you
haven't said which FTP client you're running.

Hope this helps.

Cheers!

Raghuram

Disclaimer: My opinions are my own.

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Steve Hammond wrote in message ...
FTP is being mean to me!!

I have a job that does the following:

-starts up in the PUB group of account X (acct no important)

- does a CHROUP in group A
- runs FTP.ARPA.SYS
- opens a remote system (running Linux)
- logs on as a specific user (passworded)
- issues the FTP PROMPT command
- issues the FTP MPUT * command
- closes the remote session
- exits FTP
- does a CHGROUP to group B
- runs FTP.ARPA.SYS

.... and the process proceeds through 126 different groups with
corresponding users on the Linux system

My problem is this...

Somewhere down the line, during one of the transfers in one of the later
groups (about 100 in),

I get a msg saying "REMOTE ABORTED THE CONNECTION (SOCKERR 64)
followed by
"426 Data Connection: No space left on device"
followed by
"SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION (SOCKERR 0)"
followed by another successful file transfer
followed by
"452 Error writing file: No space left on device"
followed by
"SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION (SOCKERR 0)"

then...
no close or exit appears on the STDLIST and it goes straight to the next
CHGROUP


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