/etc/inetd.conf contains the following two lines: time stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/sbin/tcpd in.timed time dgram udp wait nobody /usr/sbin/tcpd in.timed This is incorrect for at least the following two reasons. 1. in.timed should be running continuously if it is running at all. It is not a on demand service, like telnet, but rather an active service like xntpd. 2. The time protocol is built into inetd, just like daytime and chargen. /etc/inetd.conf should have the two lines shown above taken out and these two lines should be added: time stream tcp nowait root internal time dgram udp wait root internal This mistake is in all versions that I have checked between RedHat 4.2 and 5.2. Tom Schenk Systems Administrator Deja News, Inc.
Reason 3 for the current entry being incorrect. 3. in.timed doesn't talk time protocol. It talks timed protocol.
while we are at it, why is gopher still there?
*** Bug 1023 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** UDP time requests to RH Linux systems (including 4.2, 5.0 and 5.1) fail. The symptoms are that no time is returned and inetd reports "time/udp server failing (looping), service terminated". This turns out to be due to an error in inetd.conf. The time daemon in.timed is not suitable for handling udp requests; however inetd provides an internal handler. Therefore replacing the line: time dgram udp wait nobody /usr/sbin/tcpd in.timed with: time dgram udp wait root internal gives the correct behaviour. Peter ------- Additional Comments From ayn2 02/02/99 01:49 ------- This is a duplicate of the report #891
This problem has been fixed in Raw Hide.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 1725 ***