inetd died on signal 13

[Todd McDaniel_1]

I have a strange intermittent problem that is bothering me. I havent found much info on it anywhere.

Every once in a while, I get a "inetd died Signal 13" error... This occurs on a N-4000-55, running 11.i

It seems non-fatal, but I would just like to know what may be causing it. I have checked after each time and inetd is still running and has a start time BEFORE the error occured... as if it never died.

The current proc has been running since Dec 20th.

# grep "Died on signal 13" syslog.log
Dec 24 22:01:18 chdcfas1 inetd[1286]: ident/tcp: Died on signal 13
Dec 25 10:18:40 chdcfas1 inetd[1286]: ident/tcp: Died on signal 13
Dec 31 22:01:15 chdcfas1 inetd[1286]: ident/tcp: Died on signal 13
root:/var/adm/syslog
# grep "Died on signal 13" OLDsyslog.log
Dec 17 22:01:17 chdcfas1 inetd[1510]: ident/tcp: Died on signal 13

[Uday_S_Ankolekar · Accepted solution]

From KB..
Sendmail uses identd but does not depend on
identd to be working to process mail. So, if there is no other reason you
need identd (strictly an advisory mechanism) you can disable it with the
following steps:

Comment out the service the file:

/etc/inetd.conf

Restart inetd with the command:

/sbin/init.d/inetd stop
/sbin/init.d/inetd start

or re-read the inetd.conf file with the command:

inetd -c

There is also a patch available to fix this
PHNE_26304 will for 11.00
PHNE_26305 will for 11.11
Select latest and appropriate one for your env.

Goodluck..
-USA..

[Kent Ostby]

Signal 13 is _SIGPIPE.

The comment in the definition file is "write on a pipe with no one to read it".

This is a known problem on 11.00 and 11.11 and their are patches for the problem.

The fix was originally put into the 11.00 patch, PHNE_26304 and the 11.11 patch, PHNE_26305.

Best regards,

Kent M. Ostby

[Todd McDaniel_1]

Okay got a good answer from HP support on this...

You can edit 1 of 2 files... and comment out ident with no advers effects...

/etc/inetd.conf and reread inet with inetd -c

OR

You can edit sendmail.cf and then re-read it with newaliases


Ident merely performs a reverse lookup for the senders hostname/ip address... It MAY seem like a security hole to do this, but it was Berline who I got as a support person and she is surely a security guru...

She said it was a bad way to try to break into a box! so I believed her of course! but seriously, she said there are far better ways to compromise a unix box...