ftpd - telnetd Error messages in syslog

[Lisa Mauer]

We have a new rp8400 running HP 11i. Started to see these error messages in the syslog file... Any ideas what is causing this? The only difference with this server and other servers, is this is behind a firewall and other servers are not. Not noticing any problems besides the annoying messages - so I do not know if that is even relevant or not. Messages repeat every 6 seconds.... Thanks
Lisa

Aug 8 03:14:34 dbqdev1 telnetd[7998]: getpid: peer died: Error 0
Aug 8 03:15:29 dbqdev1 ftpd[8034]: FTP session closed
Aug 8 03:15:34 dbqdev1 telnetd[8036]: getpid: peer died: Error 0
Aug 8 03:16:29 dbqdev1 ftpd[8060]: FTP session closed
Aug 8 03:16:34 dbqdev1 telnetd[8062]: getpid: peer died: Error 0
Aug 8 03:17:29 dbqdev1 ftpd[8069]: FTP session closed
Aug 8 03:17:34 dbqdev1 telnetd[8071]: getpid: peer died: Error 0
Aug 8 03:18:29 dbqdev1 ftpd[8095]: FTP session closed
Aug 8 03:18:34 dbqdev1 telnetd[8098]: getpid: peer died: Error 0
Aug 8 03:19:29 dbqdev1 ftpd[8105]: FTP session closed
Aug 8 03:19:34 dbqdev1 telnetd[8107]: getpid: peer died: Error 0
Aug 8 03:20:29 dbqdev1 ftpd[8152]: FTP session closed
Aug 8 03:20:34 dbqdev1 telnetd[8154]: getpid: peer died: Error 0
Aug 8 03:21:29 dbqdev1 ftpd[8161]: FTP session closed
Aug 8 03:21:34 P session closed
Aug 8 03:dbqdev1 telnetd[8163]: getpid: peer died: Error 0
Aug 8 03:22:29 dbqdev1 ftpd[8188]: FTP session closed
Aug 8 03:22:35 dbqdev1 telnetd[8190]: getpid: peer died: Error 0
Aug 8 03:23:29 dbqdev1 ftpd[8198]: FTP session closed
Aug 8 03:23:34 dbqdev1 telnetd[8200]: getpid: peer died: Error 0
Aug 8 03:24:29 dbqdev1 ftpd[8224]: FTP session closed
Aug 8 03:24:34 dbqdev1 telnetd[8226]: getpid: peer died: Error 0

[Tom Geudens · Accepted solution]

Hi Lisa,
Just of the top of my head I would say that these daemons are not to happy with your firewall settings. You should check the firewall logs. There are several threads about this in the forums (search with "getpid: peer died:"). This is one of them http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0xdb9903bbece8d5118ff40090279cd0f9,00.html

Hope this puts you on the right track,
Regards,
Tom

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi Lisa,

These msgs are telling you that the telnet & ftp sessions are being "closed" by the remote side. I'd speculate that a FW setting is timing them out.

Rgds,
Jeff

[Sajid_1]

hi,

The telnetd message comes normally when there is a communication failure between the telnetd process and the client process (peer). I think this is because of the Firewall setup on your network. This document will give you more explanation - http://support2.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en_US&docId=500000000092173

Doc ID - BHERRKBRC00006815

[Ron Cornwell]

We recently built a new rp7400 on 11i and began receiving the same errors. The recommendation from HP was to increase the kernel parameters nflocks and nfile. We have set ours to 10240 each. Hope this helps.

[Lisa Mauer]

Ended up being a "whatsup" server gathering information every 5 seconds and our server not appreciating that! Had them stop!
Thanks to all for you information!