Subject: FCNTL Lock Failed

From: "May we be forgiving of our systems' faults..." <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 1996 19:28:56 -0400 (EDT)

Well, I happen to have run into the same problem that Frank Everitt
	did back on 08/26/95;  and I have to ask his question again since
	I can find no reply in my wu-ftpd archives.  So...HELP!!!  :)

	Thanks!

								Sean.

*** AS A REPEAT OF ***

From:	IN%"[email-masked]" 29-AUG-1995 14:14:11.17 29-AUG-1995 14:14:00.00
To:	IN%"[email-masked]"
CC:	
Subj:	FCNTL Lock Failed

To All....
	Since this is the first time I'm using this process, I may not be doing
	this posting correctly. Please take this fact into consideration before
	I get flamed. Anyway, I'm having a problem with the WU-FTPD and here's
	a brief description.

	I've installed the WU ftpd and I'm having a problem with the deamon 
	releasing itself. I'm running on a Sparc 20 under Solaris 2.4. The 
	problem scenerio is:

	After an initial ftp session is established on the Sparc 20, and the 
	user has exited using the "bye" command, "ftpd" continues to run. This 
	is determined by doing a "ps -deaf | grep ftp". When another ftp session	is initiated, the user is prompted for his login, but never gets the
	password prompt. This is because the ftp server has placed this process
	into a "sleep" state and generates the following message.

	"Aug 28 12:00:44 hawkeye ftpd[5771]: sleeping: fcntl lock of pid file 
	failed: Resource temporarily unavailable"

	I've made sure that the ftpd is owned by "bin" and is the group "bin". 
	Any help on this problem will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks......

Frank Everitt
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