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>Howdy managers:
>
>Frequently when we reboot our Sun servers and workstations, some
>services from inetd.conf do not get started. Instead, error messages
>such as "in.rlogind: service not available" are displayed. However, if
>I kill -HUP inetd after rebooting (thereby forcing it to rescan
>inetd.conf) the services that fell through the cracks when booting will
>start (sometimes I have to kill -HUP a number of times to get a "clean"
>rescan without error messages).
>
>Unforunately, the services that don't start are not consistently
>reproducible. The problem occurs with different services seemingly at
>random and sometimes the problem doesn't occur at all.
>
>Is there some sort of limit on the size of inetd.conf? The problem
>seems to get better (but not disappear) when some unused services are
>removed from inetd.conf.
>
>Any suggestions, common experiences, etc. would be greatly
>appreciated.
>
>Oh yeah. SPARC 10/51 SunOS 4.1.3 plenty of RAM etc.
>
>Thanks.
>
>- jeff -
>
>Jeff Gordon gordoja@mcsunx.gs.com
The overwhelming response was to check for and remove any blank lines that
might be in inetd.conf and services (/etc and NIS) - sure enough we had
a blank line in services.
Thanks to all who responded:
Barry Margolin <barmar@Think.COM>
Brett M Hogden <hogden@rge.com>
Dave Mitchell <D.Mitchell@dcs.shef.ac.uk>
Mike Raffety <mike_raffety@il.us.swissbank.com>
Scott McWilliams <scott@bih.harvard.edu>
Tim.Griffin@fw.gs.com (Tim Griffin - Systems Consultant)
Tim.Tokarsky@dssserv.fw.gs.com (Timothy Tokarsky)
brett@bsysparc.Bentley.COM (Brett S. Yeagley)
cygan@wpm.com (Linda Cygan)
danny@ews7.dseg.ti.com (Danny Johnson)
dhb@ssd.ray.com (David H. Brierley)
don@mars.dgrc.doc.ca (Donald McLachlan)
ice@syrinx.umd.edu (Fredrik Nyman)
tkevans@eplrx7.es.duPont.com (Tim Evans)
- jeff -
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