I have been using a RH 6.2 as a time server and it does not close the connections, this is a line of a netstat : tcp 1 0 192.168.0.1:37 192.168.0.69:1044 CLOSE_WAIT I have to restart the server periodically because of this
inetd is not closing the socket on builtins. --- inetd.c Sat Dec 23 16:49:10 2000 +++ inetd.c.orig Tue Nov 23 11:31:53 1999 @@ -490,7 +490,6 @@ } else { sep->se_bi->bi_fn(ctrl, sep); - close(ctrl); } }
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 16729 ***