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Solution

You can configure different timeouts in the main ProFTPd configuration file. When logged into the shell as root open the /etc/proftpd.conf file and set the time (in seconds) to your desired time. These values should be within the <Global> section of the file.

...
TimeoutNoTransfer  900
TimeoutStalled  600
TimeoutIdle  1200
...

Detailed description for these directives, and many others, can be found at http://proftpd.org/docs/directives/linked/by-name.html.

Once your changes have been made, you will need to restart the service with the following command:

service xinetd restart