ANSWERED: Mysterious bootpd entries in logfile

From: Erin Copeland (erin@sam.math.ethz.ch)
Date: Thu Nov 21 1996 - 05:39:46 CST


Hello,

I think my problem has been solved. This was the original Mysterious Log
Entry:

> Nov 1 07:36:34 sysiphus bootpd[10758]: bootpd 2.1 #18: Sun Apr 11
> 00:37:49 GMT 1993
> Nov 1 07:36:34 sysiphus bootpd[10758]: bootpd 2.1 #18: Sun Apr 11
> 00:37:49 GMT 1993
> Nov 1 07:36:34 sysiphus ^I
> Nov 1 07:36:34 sysiphus ^I
> Nov 1 07:36:34 sysiphus bootpd[10758]: reading "/etc/bootptab"
> Nov 1 07:36:34 sysiphus bootpd[10758]: reading "/etc/bootptab"
> Nov 1 07:36:34 sysiphus bootpd[10758]: read 0 entries from "/etc/bootptab"
> Nov 1 07:36:34 sysiphus bootpd[10758]: read 0 entries from "/etc/bootptab"
> Nov 1 07:51:41 sysiphus bootpd[10758]: exiting after 15 minutes of inactivity
> Nov 1 07:51:41 sysiphus bootpd[10758]: exiting after 15 minutes of inactivity
> Nov 1 08:39:33 sysiphus bootpd[10771]: bootpd 2.1 #18: Sun Apr 11 00:37:49 GMT 1993
> Nov 1 08:39:33 sysiphus bootpd[10771]: bootpd 2.1 #18: Sun Apr 11 00:37:49 GMT 1993

And here was the answer:

From: Anderson McCammont <and@morgan.com>
> do you use bootp? does /etc/bootptab exist?
> if you don't and it does, delete it.
> if you do, and it does, check it for control chars, format etc.
> if it doesn't check your inetd.conf

I looked in /etc/inetd.conf, and lo and behold... bootpd had been appended. I
did not remember doing this, but I did check the date of the last edit on
/etc/inetd.conf. Then I snooped around my fs for other files of that date,
and noticed that the HP jetadmin printer software I installed was concurrent.

I guess I would've known that if I could read the installation
instructions, which were shipped to me in German. :-)

Many thanks,

Erin



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