Hi Gene,

>However, when FTP'ing using the oracle user id, it aborts at 
>1gb.  I guessed the ftp daemon used some other user id for 
>this.  Wrong ( well maybe).  I changed the default limits to 
>unlimited for all users (i.e. default) and deleted the oracle 
>user id from /etc/security/limits file.  Same problem, ftp 
>process dies at 1gb.  Now, I am trying to get the file rather 
>than putting it.  Lets see if this works?  

Your workaround is correct. The reason why this errored out before is this :
Root on the remote server receives a signal via inetd and starts up an
'ftpd' daemon under it's own account to serve you when you 'put' a file.
This is configured in the /etc/inetd.conf file (diff path in AIX) by the
following line:

ftp     tli     tcp     nowait  root    /usr/etc/ftpd   ftpd

$ ps -ef | grep ftpd
     root 28825   923   0  07:07:08 ?           0:00 ftpd <--- this does the
job on the remote server
   oracle 28917   686   0  07:07:44 ttyAF/AFFL  0:00 grep ftpd 

When 'root' started out, the inetd process which triggers the start of the
ftpd inherits the previous limit of 1gb and hence you had this problem. To
solve this permanently, you will need to run the command 'refresh -s inetd'
as 'root' on AIX which restarts the inetd daemon.

Hth, (Hope this helps!)

John Kanagaraj
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