ftp caused system reboot?

[patrick xi]

Dear friends,

I met a very strange situation. These days I often found one of our HPUX server was down abnormally. The os level of the server is hpux11.0. As I restart it and checked in OLDsyslog.log, I found before system crash there was a ftp session finished. The time of the OLDsyslog.log is just the time ftp session finished. The ftp session is from a IBM server as a cron job. Execute two times a day. One in the morning, the other in the noon. The file size is below 1M.
This happened for several times. I heard on Solaris a big size ftp transfer could cause system crash. Some patch could solve it. Is it same on HPUX? Please help.

[Arunvijai_4]

Hello,

Yes, you need to patch your server to the latest available in ITRC. Do a search here,

http://www2.itrc.hp.com/service/patch/mainPage.do

-Arun

[Joseph Loo · Accepted solution]

hi,

there is a somewhat similar problem u encounter in this thread which requires a patch:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=86782

regards.
(p.s. please remember to assign points.)

[Sivakumar TS]

Hi,

Is there a crash dump during the reboot?

In addition, have you checked your logs before the automatic reboot such as /var/adm/syslog/OLDsyslog.log and syslog ?

Please check this link whcih says about some patch requirement for ftp.

http://www2.itrc.hp.com/service/patch/patchDetail.do?BC=patch.breadcrumb.main|patch.breadcrumb.search|&patchid=FTPFDU8A&context=mpeix:c.65.00

http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/g-05.shtml

Hope this helps,

Siva.

[patrick xi]

Dear friends,

Thanks for your time.

Tomorror I will try the patches provided and update the result.

Best regards,
patrick.