Bug 14836

Summary:	xinetd fails on restart if "bind" directive used
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Raw Hide	Reporter:	Reuben Farrelly <reuben-redhatbugzilla>
Component:	xinetd	Assignee:	Trond Eivind Glomsrxd <teg>
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Description Reuben Farrelly 2000-07-29 08:58:43 UTC

I am currently running xinetd-2.1.8.9pre8-11 and have noticed a problem if 
I restart xinetd after having used the "bind" directive in a startup file 
as shown below:

bind                    = 203.42.190.225

xinetd does not seem to like being stopped and started so quickly, and 
this message appears in the log:

Jul 29 16:01:52 tornado xinetd[7563]: bind failed (Address already in use 
(errno = 98)). service = imap

The service then fails to listen on the nominated port (in this case 143).

I've worked around the problem by stopping xinetd and starting it a few 
seconds later.

Maybe some sort of sleep statement in the /etc/rc.d/init/xinetd script 
would also fix this?

Comment 1 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2000-07-29 17:58:17 UTC

The current package uses runs with the "-reuse" flag, which should solve the
problem

Comment 2 Reuben Farrelly 2000-07-31 14:26:36 UTC

You are of course correct that this is the way the latest xinetd is configured, 
however the problem persists despite that, and I still need to manually shut 
down and restart xinetd in order to solve the problems with interface binding 
as I originally described...

Comment 3 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2000-07-31 14:58:37 UTC

I can't reproduce this - please try beta5, and reopen if still a problem.