Rhino, Thanks for the reply. I'm certain the space is there. Also, the first time it transferred a bunch of files and hung. Restarted and it transferred a bunch more files before it hung, etc. Ditto several times. If it was a target space problem, I suspect it would hit a wall at the same file each time.
I'll check out the other FTP task and see if I have better luck. In the meantime, if anybody else knows a way to drill down with additional traces/logs to see precisely what is hanging, I'm willing to do the analysis. Thanks again. JWM -----Original Message----- From: Rhino [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 3:16 PM To: Ant Users List Subject: Re: Ant FTP Hangs I had similar behaviour several weeks back when I tried to FTP a much smaller number of files, no more than 200. I don't recall if I got no message at all or just a very vague and misleading one. It eventually turned out that the server which was receiving the files had filled up. It was just a 5 MB chunk of space and already had a number of files on it; my FTP exhausted the space before I had all the files transferred. I recall that I had to discover the problem by poking around on the server; Ant told me very little that was of use. Perhaps you are having a similar problem? I think you're asking how to debug your problem via return codes, registers, logs or whatever but I didn't do anything like that in my case so I can't suggest a good general technique for debugging FTP problems. In my case, I knew the space I was targetting was fairly limited; I just didn't realize that it was as full as it was. When the FTP failed and I couldn't see any other obvious error in my Ant task, I immediately suspected space might be the culprit and figured out how much space I was using and how much was left; it soon became obvious that I had exhausted the space. I don't suppose that will help you much unless you are having the exact same problem but it's the best I can do. Oh, one other thing, a couple of years back, I discovered that there was an alternate FTP task for Ant. It has a slightly different approach but essentially does the same things in a more efficient manner. Perhaps you'll have better luck using it? The URL is http://oss.ipov.org/iftp-ant/. -- Rhino ----- Original Message ----- From: "JWM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <user@ant.apache.org> Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 3:50 PM Subject: Ant FTP Hangs I have an ant script that date checks and FTPs several thousand files. Ant gets a portion of the way through it and hangs (I run -verbose). I'll run it again, and it'll get further (apparently because more files have already been transferred each iteration), then hang again. But it appears to be diminishing returns. After restarting a bunch of times, it now date checks the first thousand or so, then transfers a couple of more. Then locks up. There is no error message. I've tried this on different client machines and FTP'ing to different servers with different FTP servers (linux on one, IIS on another). Is FTP just that flaky? Is there any way I can get more information as to what is really happening? Is there any trick to FTP'ing this massive number of files short of breaking it up into a bunch of smaller separately-invoked ant scripts? I'm a software developer and can debug if someone can give me at least the zipcode of where to start looking. Thanks --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 268.1.1/271 - Release Date: 28/02/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 268.1.1/271 - Release Date: 28/02/2006 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
