Re: Overwhelming in.rshd?

[Wayne Stout <waynestout hantover com>]

Thanks, Gustav!

I've been fighting with this problem for about 3 weeks now. I think I
searched Redhat at the beginning, but not in that last week.

Fortunately, I just did updates 2 days ago, so looks like I had the fix
without knowing it...

Thanks again,

Wayne

Gustav Schaffter wrote:
> 
> Wayne,
> 
> You run RH6.2?
> 
> Make sure you run the latest inetd, version 0.16-7.
> 
> I quote:
> 
> "The inetd server as shipped with Red Hat Linux 6.2 fails to close
> sockets
> for internal service properly. This could make services stop working
> when
> the system had leaked sufficient resources."
> 
> Regards
> Gustav