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Bug 4320

Summary:	inetd fails to start rshd
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	sherrill
Component:	rsh	Assignee:	David Lawrence <dkl>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	5.2	CC:	cau
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Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
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Description sherrill 1999-08-02 21:29:07 UTC

you can recreate the problem in the following way:
execute an rcp of a single file from a solaris2.6 machine to
a linux5.2 client in a loop. the rcp will eventually hang.
if I kill inetd on the redhat5.2 machine and then restart it
the rcp's resume. I can rcp another file from a different
client while the rcp from the first machine is hung up. the
file I am transferring is not large (~37kB).

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 1999-08-02 21:53:59 UTC

Check your /var/log/messages for errors. Inetd has code that turns off
any service that is respawning to fast. If you need a higher rate
of connections, then modify your inetd.conf to permit that (I've
forgotten details).

Comment 2 sherrill 1999-08-03 22:08:59 UTC

thanks for your suggestions.
I reran my test and got this error message in /var/log/messages:

Aug  3 14:57:09 lunchbox inetd[17857]: shell/tcp server failing
(looping), service terminated

I will look into how to change the respawn rate in inetd.conf

Comment 3 sherrill 1999-08-03 22:09:59 UTC

thanks for your suggestions.
I reran my test and got this error message in /var/log/messages:

Aug  3 14:57:09 lunchbox inetd[17857]: shell/tcp server failing
(looping), service terminated

I will look into how to change the respawn rate in inetd.conf