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Index of Subjects Hi Dave, On Chebucto CN, we just let the timeout happen. We do this for fairness (why should downloading be considered a "more important" use of the resource than, for instance, mail? - perhaps it's less important in terms of the CN mission.) But all is not lost :) If the user runs a recent Zmodem client, and sets it up correctly, he can re-attempt the same download, and although the system will pull in a fresh copy from the remote site, Zmodem will figure out how far down the file the transmission was interrupted, and resume from there. Recent versions of Kermit can also do this, although I'm not sure if our server has that feature enabled. As an alternative, we allow users to stay on beyond the standard time, if there are a reasonable number of free lines open. (this would typically happen between 1 and 7 am.) Our tq system enables this, and can be configured to give different classes of users different limits, according to which kind of session as well. There is some description in the CSuite Workshop notes about this. Ed Dyer aa146@chebucto.ns.ca (902) H 826-7496 CCN Assistant Postmaster http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~aa146/ W 426-4894 CSuite Technical Workshop On Thu, 24 Sep 1998, Dave Wile wrote: > We have a problem at Cobequid CN with the timing out after an hour if > someone is downloading a file that takes longer than an hour. We do not > want to disable the timeout feature because we only have two working > external lines. Is there anyway that we can specify that certain file > transfers will not time out while normal surfing will? > That is can we in anyway specify that *.exe and *.zip will not time out if > a transfer of these files has been started? Just curious, this may not be > possible but if it is I'd like to know so that we could make changes on > our system.
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