inetd [548]:auth.tcp:Exit status 1

[Brian Abdallah]

I received a page on a disk going offline and then online 5 minutes later last night. The syslog read:inetd [548]:auth.tcp:Exit status 1.
Trying to figure out what is the exact message
and the error. This has happened before.

Thanks

[Helen French · Accepted solution]

Some thoughts:

1) The disk going online and offline message might be purely a hardware call. Use STM to find out the specific disk's issues. Check with ioscan, diskinfo, dd etc. If needed, then replace the disk. If it's a storage enclosure, then check that too.

2) The 'inetd' error message doesn't have any direct relation with this disk problem. This message is from the identd which some versions of sendmail use to try to authenticate the other end of a connection. There is a problem
with the way it sent out the inetd.conf entry for identd. To correct this, change it from:

auth stream tcp wait bin /usr/lbin/identd identd -w -t120

to:

auth stream tcp nowait bin /usr/lbin/identd identd -l -i -t120

This should take care of that problem after you reconfigure. Do an inetd -c to reread the inetd.conf file.

3) Apply the latest patches to the system. That may solve a lot of bugs !