topic Re: inetd daemon getting killed in Operating System - HP-UX

inetd daemon getting killed

Sanjiv Sharma_1 — Thu, 05 Sep 2002 08:26:21 GMT

Hi,

I have 2 standalone K460 with HP-UX 10.20.
It has been observed that the inetd daemon got killed automatically on both the servers (within a gap of 1 hour) and the users were unable to telnet.

In another K360 server with HP-UX 10.20 the inetd daemon got killed yesterday.

I started the inetd daemon and then they became ok.

I would like to know what could be the possible causes for the inetd daemon being killed automatically.

There is no information of the inetd daemon in the syslog.log. What needs to be checked?

Thanks,
Raje.

Re: inetd daemon getting killed

Chris Wilshaw — Thu, 05 Sep 2002 08:29:19 GMT

It depends on whether the process is being killed, or dying.

If it's being killed, check cron jobs, adn find out if any users with root access have been killing things.

If it's dying, check for the latest inetd patches.

Re: inetd daemon getting killed

Sanjiv Sharma_1 — Thu, 05 Sep 2002 08:36:38 GMT

Hi Chris,

Nobody except me has the root access to this servers and hence I don't think someone is stopping the inetd service.

Can you help me to look for the latest inetd patches as I didn't find in the ITRC site.

Thanks,
Raje.

Re: inetd daemon getting killed

Chris Wilshaw — Thu, 05 Sep 2002 08:42:39 GMT

This link should take you to it.

http://support4.itrc.hp.com/service/patch/patchDetail.do?patchid=PHNE_20747&context=hpux:800:10:20

Re: inetd daemon getting killed

U.SivaKumar_2 — Thu, 05 Sep 2002 09:01:38 GMT

Hi,
are you running samba in that server ?

regards,
U.SivaKumar

Re: inetd daemon getting killed

Sanjiv Sharma_1 — Fri, 06 Sep 2002 01:03:46 GMT

Hi Chris,
Thanks. I think this patch should help.

Hi Siva,
Yes. Samba is running in all the three servers.
Has Samba got anything to do with this?

Thanks,
Raje.

Re: inetd daemon getting killed

S.K. Chan — Fri, 06 Sep 2002 01:45:49 GMT

There is only one incident that I can relate to you with regards to a frequent dying of inetd. In my case it left behind a core file in root level (/). If I am not mistaken it was caused by a library patch (I can't remember). After I removed that patch it was ok. You might want to check if there is any core file and one more thing.. is your inetd started with the "-l" option ? If not start it with "-l" so that you get inetd logs in syslog.log file, that way it'll help determine the possible causes.

Re: inetd daemon getting killed

Sanjiv Sharma_1 — Fri, 06 Sep 2002 02:02:24 GMT

Hi Chan,

I don't find any core file available.

Thanks,
Raje.

Re: inetd daemon getting killed

U.SivaKumar_2 — Fri, 06 Sep 2002 03:30:23 GMT

Hi,
It is the problem caused by samba . I have faced it personally. Try stopping the samba in
the problematic server and observe it for some days. I bet that samba is the culprit.

regards,
U.SivaKumar

Re: inetd daemon getting killed

Sanjiv Sharma_1 — Fri, 06 Sep 2002 03:57:16 GMT

Hi Siva,

I agree with you but Samba is the most important application running on these servers.
I cannot stop this.

Even if it is a samba problem then what is the solution?

Thanks,
Raje.

Re: inetd daemon getting killed

U.SivaKumar_2 — Fri, 06 Sep 2002 04:45:53 GMT

Hi,
Problem is noted with swat enabled samba. SWAT
has this bug.

regards,
U.SivaKumar

Re: inetd daemon getting killed

Sanjiv Sharma_1 — Fri, 06 Sep 2002 04:49:31 GMT

Hi Siva,

Thanks. But what is the fix?

Raje.

Re: inetd daemon getting killed

U.SivaKumar_2 — Fri, 06 Sep 2002 04:54:01 GMT

Hi,
Only way is to disable SWAT in your samba .

regards,
U.SivaKumar

Re: inetd daemon getting killed

Sanjiv Sharma_1 — Fri, 06 Sep 2002 04:55:34 GMT

Hi Siva,

Thanks. But can you tell how can I disable swat in samba.

If you can give me the procedure.

Thanks,
Raje.

Re: inetd daemon getting killed

U.SivaKumar_2 — Fri, 06 Sep 2002 05:00:22 GMT

Hi,
Take a copy of /etc/inetd.conf first as backup.
edit /etc/inetd.conf file
you will find a line starting with "swat" .
Remove or comment this line with #.
Give this command.
#inetd -c
This is enough to disable SWAT.

regards,
U.SivaKumar