Going down on signal 13

[Mohd Farouk Bin Baharim]

Hi,

When I got this message on syslog file, I cannot telnet to server and need to run inetd command to bring up this service. somebody can explain to me, what's mean that error ?
and why this service going down ?

"Jan 14 20:52:27 takaful2 inetd[9987]: Going down on signal 13"

[Michael Tully]

I read this before where sendmail has a problem in conjunction with using the 'identd' service in inetd. There is also a patch for it. In saying that the error basically means
define_SIGPIPE 13/* write on a pipe with no one to read it. Something may have caused inetd to create a pipe, but there was no process. You could edit the /etc/inetd.conf file and comment out 'identd'. Save the file and run 'inetd -c'
Also have a look at these patches which I think fixes this problem.

PHNE_26304 will for 11.00
PHNE_26305 will for 11.11

[Mohd Farouk Bin Baharim]

if using HP 10.20, which patch file i can download ?

[Michael Tully]

If your problem is actually sendmail that is doing this, you could try patch PHNE_28760
Or the suggestion I made earlier about removing 'identd' from 'inetd.conf' file.