Inetd deamon issue

[Saurabh Rawat]

On one my HP-Ux server i am getting following error by monitoring tool.

NumberOfProcess=2,MinInst=1,Status=5,User=,MaxInst=1,MonStatus=2,Path=/usr/sbin,Params=,Object=inetd

when i checked found that there is only one instance is running of inetd.

#ps -ef | grep -i inetd
root 935 1 0 Jan 13 ? 1:48 /usr/sbin/inetd -l
root 25694 14102 0 07:09:52 pts/1 0:00 grep -i inetd

i tried #inetd -c but still same issue .

This is live production server. and it is in cluster.

Any suggestion ?

[Warren_9]

Hi,

your command should be "ps -ef | grep inetd | grep -v grep"

the "grep -v grep" is use to filter out your own grep process.

GOOD LUCK!!

[Duncan Edmonstone]

Well then the problem is with your monitoring software then isn't it? But since you haven't told us what that is, there's not really any way to help...

Incidentally more efficient than 'ps -ef | grep inetd | grep -v grep' would be:

ps -ef | grep [i]netd

or even

UNIX95= ps -fC inetd

HTH

Duncan

[Laurent Menase]

If this is transient, inetd fork() when launching a service process. If that monitoring program is looking at inetd at the time it is forking, and had not yet execve() you see 2 inetd.