On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 04:46:15PM -0400, Miller-Jacobson, Ben wrote: > One of my coworkers recently encountered a problem in one of our scripts > where the script would apparently hang after first being moved to a new > machine in which the none of the old files it was supposed to move were yet > present. We tracked it down to LFTP apparently not finding the file it is > looking for and retrying indefinitely. Reviewing the man page, this looks > like the expected behavior. However, it was not what we were expecting and > in our case and a number of other plausible use cases not what is desired. > It occurs to me that an option to disable retries or perhaps set a maximum > number of retries might be a nice feature to add, if it doesn't already > exist. We've got a fix for our issue, but this might be useful for other > cases where reporting a failure is better than retrying indefinitely, > especially for use in scripts where there isn't going to be someone around > to kill the process.
Please turn on debug in lftp (command debug) and see the protocol messages. FYI, 4xx codes in FTP protocol are transient, so lftp retries on them. To limit the number of retries change the setting net:max-retries. -- Alexander. _______________________________________________ lftp mailing list lftp@uniyar.ac.ru http://univ.uniyar.ac.ru/mailman/listinfo/lftp
