125-: Waiting for read process to open pathname

Explanation

The FTP server received a STOR (store) or APPE (append) command that specified a named pipe as the target file. The FTP server must wait for another process to open the named pipe in read mode before the server can process the STOR or APPE command.

This reply is one of a sequence of replies that are sent to the FTP client when the FTP server must wait for another process to open a named pipe in read mode.

See the information about using z/OS® UNIX System Services named pipes in z/OS Communications Server: IP User's Guide and Commands.

In the message text:
pathname
The name of the named pipe.

Example

Command:
put /etc/hosts /tmp/etc.hosts.fifo                                              
>>> PORT 9,2,1,3,4,35                                                       
200 Port request OK.                                                            
>>> STOR /tmp/etc.hosts.fifo                                                    
125-Waiting for read process to open /tmp/etc.hosts.fifo                        
125 Transfer request aborted                                                                                                                                    
450 timer expired waiting for read process to open /tmp/etc.hosts.fifo                                                                 
Command:                                                                                       

 
Command:                                                               
put /etc/hosts /tmp/etc.hosts.fifo                                     
>>> PORT 9,2,1,3,4,36                                              
200 Port request OK.                                                   
>>> STOR /tmp/etc.hosts.fifo                                           
125-Waiting for read process to open /tmp/etc.hosts.fifo               
125 Appending to named pipe /tmp/etc.hosts.fifo                        
250 Transfer completed successfully.                                   
41 bytes transferred in 0.005 seconds.  Transfer rate 8.20 Kbytes/sec. 
Command:    

System action

The FTP server waits up to the number of seconds specified by the FIFOOPENTIME configuration option for the read process to open the path specified by the pathname value.

User response

Notify the system administrator of the server host to start the process that writes to the named pipe.

System programmer response

None.

Problem determination

Not applicable.

Source

z/OS Communications Server TCP/IP: FTP