Re: xinetd 2.3.9 fails

["Andrew Smith" <rhml2 k1k2 com>]

> Hi,
> 
> I have a mail server running Redhat 7.2. After upgraded to xinetd
> 2.3.9, the server frequently fails to connect using ftp, telnet and
> popper. Not always at the same time but mostly. Xinetd cannot start the
> connection and there is no error message in any of the logs. Once it
> locks out a restart of xinetd will solve the problem. The problem is,
> it dies randomly with no log entree's and no warning! I solved the
> popper problem by upgrading to V4 of Qpopper and running it as a
> daemon. Now popper runs without fail. However telnet & FTP still
> randomly fails. I have Big Brother running on that server also and have
> tried disabling it to see if it has something to do with load ( it
> seems worse at the start and the end of the day and I don't have a
> problem on the weekends). It didn't seem to be the problem. The only
> thing we run is sendmail and Apache on the server. Any thoughts would
> be appreciated....
> 
> Russ

According to Warren Togami on the Valhalla list ...

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=76146

It's a known outstanding bug

-- 
-Cheers
-Andrew

MS ... if only he hadn't been hang gliding!