On 12 Mar 2001, David Bishop wrote: > To follow up my own email, proftp has the exact same problem. Any other > ideas? > > Not really a idea, but I usually solve such things with strace .... e.g. strace -f -p <pid> (of the daemon or inetd, if it runs from there), and look where does it block ... It's output is simple and readable, and has helped me a lot :)