Died on signal 13 Error

[Colin Charles]

Hi,

I wonder if anyone can help me. I've suddenly started receiving a number of errors in the system log files about "ident/tcp" dying on signal 13. THe following is an example of the error message received:

inetd[814]: ident/tcp: Died on signal 13

These errors have been occurring for the last couple of days, with a rather large increase in frequency today. I'm running an HP9000/800 with HP-UX B.11.11.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,
Colin

[A. Clay Stephenson]

It's is possible that you are seeing a Denial of Service attack. If you are not running Service Guard then you almost certanly can disable this service in /etc/inetd.conf and issue an inetd -c command. Identd is used by only a few applications (mainly SG in HP-UX). You can also enter identd as a search string in the patch database for 11.11 and you will get several hits. SIGNAL 13 is SIGPIPE and generally indicates the loss of a child process.

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Oh, and don't overlook the obvious. Are any of your file systems (especially /var) anywhere near capacity?