KERMIT Issue

[Jack Trachtman]

(I thought I'd get a quicker answer here than through the developers.)

I just downloaded the latest Kermit version binary from Columbia U, ckv211-axp-vms73-ucx54.exe and am running on a VMS V7.3-2 system & TCPIP V5.4.

Whenever I try to download a file, the download aborts with "process quota exceeded" (or sometimes "can't create file" or other file error.)

I've searched the web and found references to WSMAX (which is set to 8192 on my system), and to BYTLIM (which is set very high on my account). I've tried using ANA/SYS to watch the process, but see no quota shortage.

I don't have the capability to build KERMIT from scratch so I'm stuck with the binary.

Any suggestions? TIA

[David B Sneddon · Accepted solution]

Jack

Don't underestimate the responsiveness of the
Kermit support people -- I have had responses
within 10 minutes in the past.
WSMAX of 8192 seems a bit low. What is your
page file quota? How big is the file? What
is the system at the other end? Are there any
protection issues in the directory into which
the file is going?

Regards
Dave

[Antoniov.]

Jack,
Ckermit on my system works using follow quotas:
WSMAX 65536
User quotas: all default
Use Ckermit V8.0.209, dated 03 17th, 2003

What command did you use to download (Receive, Get or Server/Put)?
Can you use other commands (Send, Put, Remote commands)?
Have you trouble even within CAUTIOUS and ROBUST commands?

Antonio Vigliotti

[Jack Trachtman]

David/Antoniov,

I'm running KERMIT in my own account (so there shouldn't be any file protection issues):

PGFLQUO 300,000
BYTLM: 5,000,000
I misstated WSMAX, it is actually 181,000.

The file I've been trying to download is from a bulletin-board system at a business partner. It is an ASCII file of about 144KB.

I've been using the RECEIVE cmd and have tried the ROBUST cmd (but not the CAUTIOUS CMD). I don't have permission to try an upload.

[Bojan Nemec]

Hi,

Have you try to get the file in binary mode? I have seen strange errors when the 32767 record size limit is exceeded.

Bojan

[Guenther Froehlin]

My guess is SYSGEN parameter MAXBUF too low for kermit's I/O requests.

/Guenther

[Jack Trachtman]

Since MAXBUF is a dynamic param, I tried changing it from 8192 to 32000, but still got the same error, show below:

*************************
RECEIVE- or GET-class command failed.
Packets received: 384
Damaged packets: 0
Timeouts: 0
Packet length: 4000
Most recent local error: "%SYSTEM-F-EXQUOTA, process quota exceeded"

[Guenther Froehlin]

Jack,

I assume you did:

SYSGEN> SET MAXBUF 32000
SYSGEN> SET ACTIVE

Is Kermit running in your interactive process
or, as a subprocess or, in a batch job?

/Guenther

[Garry Fruth]

You may want to check BIOLM.

[David B Sneddon]

Jack,

As Bojan suggested, try a binary mode transfer,
not so much for the long record sizes but I have
had instances where a "text" file happened to
contain a few non-text characters that caused the
transfer to fail (I think they were postscript
files). Does it consistently fail at the same
point? That was the symptom I was getting, but
I don't recall the error I got -- it didn't
point to what the problem was, that took a while
to track down.

Dave