inetd failed after system reboot

[cedrichiu]

hi,

Anyone could advise me at what circumstances whereby inetd failed to be running after system reboot. At any time, manual intervention like "/usr/sbin/inetd start" got to be performed.

And because of such, my system is won't be able to join part of cluster members.

Regards,

[Turgay Cavdar]

What is the error message?
Did you check /etc/rc.config.d/netdaemons? INETD value should be 1.

[Duncan Edmonstone]

1. Look into /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log and see if you have any inetd messages in there that might give you a clue.

2. Check what inetd settings are present in /etc/rc.config.d with the following command:

grep -i inetd /etc/rc.config.d/*

3. Consider starting inted with logging enabled to see if you can spot the issue by setting

INETD_ARGS="-l"

in the file /etc/rc.config.d/netdaemons

HTH

Duncan

[cedrichiu]

hi there,

psa1a:/root# grep -i inetd /etc/rc.config.d/*
/etc/rc.config.d/netdaemons:# inetd configuration. See inetd(1m) #
/etc/rc.config.d/netdaemons:# NOTE: inetd is always started as part of the boot up process.
/etc/rc.config.d/netdaemons:# INETD_ARGS: The command line arguments to be used when
/etc/rc.config.d/netdaemons:# starting inetd. ("-l" is the only option
/etc/rc.config.d/netdaemons:export INETD_ARGS=-1
/etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf:# 0 if /etc/inetd.conf has an entry for mountd.
/etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf:# however, it can be started from either nfs.server or inetd, and

There was no error indication shows on syslog. I don't quite sure why. And since "INETD_ARGS=-1" should able to tell why, unfortunately it wasn't. Maybe i'm wrong.


At last, found out /usr/sbin/inetd wasn't running during the last occurrence.

[Turgay Cavdar]

In /etc/rc.config.d/netdaemons there are missing INETD and wrong INETD_ARGS value. It should be like this:
export INETD=1
export INETD_ARGS="-l"

[Duncan Edmonstone]

Well if this is a cut/paste it looks like you have

INETD_ARGS=-1

i.e. "hyphen one"

when it should be

INETD_ARGS=-l

i.e. "hyphen lower case L"

and as tugay says, you also need to have:

INETD=1

(in this case this is a 1 rather than a lower case LK)

HTH

Duncan

[cedrichiu]

what are difference between ?

export INETD_ARGS=1
export INETD_ARGS=-1
export INETD_ARGS=

I noticed the default comment pertaining to such right there is..

# NOTE: inetd is always started as part of the boot up process.
#
# INETD_ARGS: The command line arguments to be used when
# starting inetd. ("-l" is the only option
# available at startup.)

#

Is it always should be equal to 1 or left blank ?

[Duncan Edmonstone]

>what are difference between ?
>
>export INETD_ARGS=1
>export INETD_ARGS=-1
>export INETD_ARGS=

The first 2 are INCORRECT - as I said they are specifying "one" and "hyphen one" and neither of these are valid for INETD_ARGS - this is a mis-reading or typo by someone - you should either have INETD_ARGS set to "" or to "-l" (that's "hyphen lower case L").

And as we already said, you also need the parameter INETD set to 1 (in this case that *is* a one) in the netdaemons file.

HTH

Duncan