inetd and bootpd messages in syslog

[Tony Flaherty]

Hi,

I'm getting the following errors in the syslog, repeated multiple times.

Sep 23 11:07:53 hpl5430 inetd[967]: bootps/udp: bind: Address already in use
Sep 23 11:07:53 hpl5430 inetd[967]: bootps/udp: Service enabled
Sep 23 11:17:53 hpl5430 inetd[967]: bootps/udp: bind: Address already in use
Sep 23 11:17:53 hpl5430 inetd[967]: bootps/udp: Service enabled
Sep 23 11:27:53 hpl5430 inetd[967]: bootps/udp: bind: Address already in use
Sep 23 11:27:53 hpl5430 inetd[967]: bootps/udp: Service enabled
Sep 23 11:37:53 hpl5430 inetd[967]: bootps/udp: bind: Address already in use
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Oct 3 13:26:02 hpl5430 bootpd[5525]:
Oct 3 13:26:03 hpl5430 bootpd[5525]: reading "/etc/bootptab"
Oct 3 13:26:03 hpl5430 bootpd[5525]: read 1 entries from "/etc/bootptab"
Oct 3 13:26:03 hpl5430 bootpd[5525]: reading "/etc/dhcpdeny"
Oct 3 13:26:03 hpl5430 bootpd[5525]: error opening "/etc/dhcpdeny": No such file or directory
Oct 3 13:26:17 hpl5430 inetd[967]: bootps/udp: Died on signal 11
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The first batch of errors stop before the 2nd batch start. This appears to have started after I cleaned up some of the services used by informix by editing /etc/services and then restarting inetd, but this was a couple of weeks ago now and I'm not sure of the exact sequence of events.


I've also recently added the -TCP_DELAY option to the telnet line of the inetd.conf file to resolve problems with MS telnet clients. Plus the -b /etc/issue paramter to get the security warning displayed for telnet users.

Any ideas how to persue this?

Thanks in advance.

Tony.

[Dietmar Konermann · Accepted solution]

Hi, Tony!

Concerning the 1st chunk of message you should have a look at doc BHERRKBRC00002819 (Kill all running bootpds and run inetd -c.)

The 2nd problem is reported for 11.11 as CR JAGae30333 and should be fixed with the next bootpd patch... your local response center should be able to provide you with a pre-release of this patch.

Regards...
Dietmar.