That was exactly what it was! My Linux sysprog had a cron job kicking off every 5 minutes to make sure the z/VM FTP servers were available, and the job would close the connection before we completed writing the banner.
Thanks for the suggestion on where to look Mark, much appreciated. :) -Mike -----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Post Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 2:37 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Using FTP Banner Causes DTCFTS2512I Every 5 Minutes >>> On 3/27/2009 at 11:28 AM, Michael Coffin <michaelcof...@mccci.com> >>> wrote: -snip- > Does anyone have any idea what's going on here? What "foreign host" > is it trying to connect to? Is there some system monitoring package running somewhere in your network that connects every 5 minutes to see if your FTP server is working? Mark Post