While using FTP, connection closes frequently

[phaldo]

I'm using Ubuntu 6.06 and Apache.

I connect to the machine via FTP. It seems as if the connection times out every few seconds. If I u/l a file it will take 15 seconds to connect. Once that connection is open I can u/l more files instantly. If I wait a few seconds it closes, then I have to wait another 15 seconds for it to reopen. Any ideas how to make it not time out so frequently? I wouldn't know where to begin to look since I've never really worked on a Linux machine.

[phaldo]

No wifi. I also don't think it would be the router/firewall. This doesn't happen with other linux machines I connect to.

As far as I know this is the only thing. I'm not sure if the issue lies with the FTP, Apache, Linux, or Ubuntu.

[phaldo]

Just going to toss this out there, since it's possible you didn't check yet..

Look in your ftpd.conf for the timeout setting.

AFAIK the lowest value is 15 seconds though?

I don't seem to have a ftpd.conf file. I typed "locate ftpd.conf" and all it returned was "/var/lib/dpkg/info/pure-ftpd.conffiles"
I went into that file and it contains this

/etc/init.d/pure-ftpd
/etc/ftpusers

[scathefire]

most likely whatever your flavor of FTP servers it will be in /etc. Vsftpd is probably the most common.

[phaldo]

most likely whatever your flavor of FTP servers it will be in /etc. Vsftpd is probably the most common.

I seem to have Pure-FTP, that's the only FTP directory in /etc. Unfortunately I don't see any .conf files

I have a /etc/pure-ftpd directory that contains
"AltLog MinUID NoAnonymous PAMAuthentication PureDB UnixAuthentication"

I went in each file and saw nothing about a timeout.

Unfortunately also I inherited this server so I wasn't the one who set it up, so I'm trying to figure everything out with it.

[scathefire]

it should be keeping logs somewhere (/var/log) usually lags like that sound like DNS timeouts, if the server is set to do a lookup on a machine. These aren't local LAN connections are they?

[scathefire]

the previous user may have stashed the startup commands somewhere like /etc/rc.local or somewhere that runs local configs after all the init scripts have ran. or there very well maybe an init script controlling the process.

[phaldo]

it should be keeping logs somewhere (/var/log) usually lags like that sound like DNS timeouts, if the server is set to do a lookup on a machine. These aren't local LAN connections are they?

I can't seem to access the transfer.log file. It says permission denied when I try to read it. I can't even copy it. Here's a cap of the files

/var/log/pure-ftpd$ ls -lrt

-rw------- 1 root root 656 2010-02-25 17:02 transfer.log.3.gz
-rw------- 1 root root 2193 2010-02-26 17:55 transfer.log.2.gz
-rw------- 1 root root 59137 2010-03-05 16:52 transfer.log.1
-rw------- 1 root root 71435 2010-03-11 13:27 transfer.log