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inetd[1277]: shell/tcp: accept: No buffer space available

 
Ameena Shaik
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‎09-15-2009 08:12 PM

‎09-15-2009 08:12 PM

inetd[1277]: shell/tcp: accept: No buffer space available

Hi All,

I am getting the following error in syslog file. Can anyone tell why this message is coming. This is occuring for every one hour.

"inetd[1277]: shell/tcp: accept: No buffer space available".



Regards,

Ameena SK
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Suraj K Sankari
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‎09-15-2009 08:24 PM

‎09-15-2009 08:24 PM

Re: inetd[1277]: shell/tcp: accept: No buffer space available

Hi,
Post the output of

# netstat -n

Might be due to lots of connections to the remote system u r getting this error

Suraj
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Laurent Menase
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‎09-16-2009 12:13 AM

‎09-16-2009 12:13 AM

Re: inetd[1277]: shell/tcp: accept: No buffer space available

usually it is a result of SYN/RESET sequence
- embryonic connection aborted-
This is often the case when your system is targeted by a port scanner, or some security appliance doing port scanning
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