From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003 Description of problem: At least xinetd 2.3.7-2 and latest... xinetd will hang in a tight loop (99% CPU usage) when a service is missing the closing bracket in its configuration file under /etc/xinetd.d. Example: service ftp { ...... # missing } Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Pick up a service config file 2. Remove the closing bracket 3. service xinetd restart Actual Results: xinetd process in tight CPU loop Expected Results: xinetd process idle Additionally: service containing the error not to be started with error reported somewhere... Additional info:
Can you try the xinetd-2.3.10-1 rpm I just made? It's in rawhide and WORKSFORME
Jay, I tried your latest xinetd rpm (2.3.10-1 on rawhide) and I confirm that it corrects the issue. I also noticed the entry in the message logfile. Good job and thank you, Jerome