SUMMARY Re: Messages flooding logs

On Wed, 15 May 2002, Kieran wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have just been asked to start looking after a new box.
> First thing I see when I run dmesg is:
>
> May 15 02:04:58 box inetd[29061]: [ID 161378 daemon.error] exec/tcp:
> bind: Address already in use
> May 15 02:04:58 box inetd[29061]: [ID 161378 daemon.error] shell/tcp:
> bind: Address already in use
> May 15 02:14:58 box inetd[29061]: [ID 161378 daemon.error] exec/tcp:
> bind: Address already in use
> May 15 02:14:58 box inetd[29061]: [ID 161378 daemon.error] shell/tcp:
> bind: Address already in use
> (repeated many times, with 10 minute intervals).
>
> /var/adm/messages is similarly flooded.
>
> How do I stop the flood?  A quick look in /etc/inetd.conf on that box
> shows...
>
Thanks for the responses on this.

I received one suggestion to remove the tcp6 lines from /etc/inetd.conf,
and a number of suggestions to look for duplicate inetd processes,
either using ps or lsof.

ps did not show up a second copy of inetd, and lsof is not available on
this box, so I tried to restart with kill -HUP <pid>.

This actually failed (log message was:
May 15 11:42:39 epdb01 inetd[29061]: [ID 244026 daemon.notice] config:
100232/rpc/udp still active and was not reconfigured.
May 15 11:42:39 epdb01 inetd[29061]: [ID 268928 daemon.error]
rusersd/rpc/datagram_v,circuit_v: could not get transport information
May 15 11:42:39 epdb01 inetd[29061]: [ID 307641 daemon.error]
rusersd/rpc/datagram_v,circuit_v: tli_socket: No such file or directory
May 15 11:42:39 epdb01 inetd[29061]: [ID 161378 daemon.error]
printer/tcp: bind: Address already in use

Running /usr/sbin/inetd -s seems to have made the log messages
disappear.  Is this known behaviour, or do I file it under
"strange"?

(uname -a gives:
SunOS epdb01 5.8 Generic_108528-12 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-Enterprise

Regards

Kieran
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