Syslog Bootpd message

[Sanjay Tailor]

Hello,
This is a message from my syslog:

Sep 20 16:46:55 u002 bootpd[20144]: Exiting after 500 minutes of inactivity

I have just began seeing this message in the last week or so. What does this mesage mean? Should I be concerned? I know we do not use bootp here. Is there something I should look at and change or should just leave it be?

Thanks
Sanjay.

[John Palmer · Accepted solution]

I don't believe that it's anything to worry about. Have a look at this previous thread on a similar subject.

http://my1.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,1150,0x328d0559ff7cd4118fef0090279cd0f9,00.html

[Stefan Farrelly]

The bootpd daemon starts up automatically and listens for any requests from remote devices to boot from your HP-server, but after 500 mins of no requests it realises its not needed so exits. Nothing to worry about. If you want to disable it you can change the bootpd variable in /etc/rc.config.d to 0 to stop it starting on bootup.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

A previous post concluded that this is annoying, but otherwise normal:

http://my1.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,1150,0x328d0559ff7cd4118fef0090279cd0f9,00.html

...JRF...

[Anthony Goonetilleke]

Comment out the bootps line from the /etc/inetd.conf file and run inetd -c

[Kofi ARTHIABAH]

Sanjay:

If you are not using bootp, you better turn it off by commenting out the entry for bootp in your /etc/inetd.conf ; and restart your inetd with
# inetd -c

you may have to kill the bootpd process after that. Essentially, your message says that bootpd has been running and not doing anything...

[Berlene Herren]

Per the man page for bootpd

bootpd can be run through inetd (see inetd(1M)), or as a stand-alone daemon. It is run by /etc/inetd when the following line (or
equivalent) is included in the file /etc/inetd.conf:

bootps dgram udp wait root /usr/lbin/bootpd bootpd

bootpd starts when a boot request arrives. If it has not received another boot request after 15 minutes, bootpd exits. The -t option can be used to specify a different timeout value in minutes (such as
-t20). With a timeout value of zero (-t0), bootpd never exits.

Hope this helps. It is normal behavior.

Berlene

[Berlene Herren]

Per the man page for bootpd

bootpd can be run through inetd (see inetd(1M)), or as a stand-alone daemon. It is run by /etc/inetd when the following line (or
equivalent) is included in the file /etc/inetd.conf:

bootps dgram udp wait root /usr/lbin/bootpd bootpd

bootpd starts when a boot request arrives. If it has not received another boot request after 15 minutes, bootpd exits. The -t option can be used to specify a different timeout value in minutes (such as
-t20). With a timeout value of zero (-t0), bootpd never exits.

Hope this helps. It is normal behavior.

Berlene