Why do I see " error: process_write: write failed" messages in SFTP environment in RHEL6?

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Issue

  • Why are we getting this error?
Dec 12 00:25:31 saclx078 sftp-server[6663]: error: process_write: write failed
Dec 12 01:19:58 saclx078 sftp-server[7762]: error: process_write: write failed
Dec 12 01:20:26 saclx078 sftp-server[7762]: error: process_write: write failed
Dec 12 01:22:07 saclx078 sftp-server[7768]: error: process_write: write failed
Dec 12 01:22:21 saclx078 sftp-server[7768]: error: process_write: write failed
Dec 12 01:22:34 saclx078 sftp-server[7768]: error: process_write: write failed
Dec 12 01:23:24 saclx078 sftp-server[7768]: error: process_write: write failed
Dec 12 02:06:26 saclx078 sftp-server[8334]: error: process_write: write failed
Dec 12 02:22:25 saclx078 sftp-server[8717]: error: process_write: write failed

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.
  • SFTP.

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