topic Re: TELNET ERROR in Operating System - HP-UX

TELNET ERROR

Arun Jain — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 11:39:36 GMT

Dear All,

I am receiving this error on one server..

"telnetd[22708]: getpid: peer died: Error 0"

and sometimes when I try to telnet a server it shows:
"table over flow
connection to host lost"

kindly suggest

Regards:
Arun

Re: TELNET ERROR

Ivan Krastev — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 12:31:01 GMT

See this previous thread - http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?admit=109447626+1201869015297+28353475&threadId=501458

regards,
ivan

Re: TELNET ERROR

TTr — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 12:56:12 GMT

The "peer died" is normal but the "table overflow" is not. You need to increase the "nfiles" parameter in the kernel

Re: TELNET ERROR

Ramesh S — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 11:20:24 GMT

Hi

Recommended updating system with the latest HP recommended telnet, ARPA and LAN products patches (plus any required dependencies), then monitoring for any further problems.

If continue to see the "telnet getpid: peer died" messages logged to syslog.log after updating patches, advised identifying the client name or IP address associated with the message by enabling verbose connection logging with the command:

# inetd -l

With the -l option, the telnet client ip address or hostname will be logged to /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log when the telnet client makes the connection and inetd starts the telnetd pid. When the getpid error is logged, can then check the pid number to see where the connection came from to troubleshoot further.

For table over flow error, you need to increase the "nfile" kernel parameter as already suggested.

Thanks & Regards

Ramesh