telnetd error message in syslog

[Todd Lehr]

Can anyone point me towards possible reasons the following messages appears in syslog

telnetd[27542]: Error checking child termination status: error 4: Interrupted system call

thanks

[harry d brown jr]

Read this:

http://bizforums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/0,,0x807342308663d611abdb0090277a778c,00.html


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harry

[Sandip Ghosh]

Enable inetd error logging by giving "inetd -l" and see the further error messages. But the syslog file will be increasing rapidly.

Sandip

[Todd Lehr]

Thanks for the info .. inet is already running with the -l options.

Note that this machine is running HP-UX 10.01 and hasn't been patched in a while. Harry you link was most helpful however I am curious how much is applicable to 10.01 as opposed to 10.20

Thanks

[Todd Lehr]

one other piece of information: I am tracking this problem because of a rash of runaway processes on our servers.

I.E.

telnetd parent to pgm A parent to pgm b

it appears that the syslog message corresponds to the telnet and pgm A processes exiting and leaving pgm b running away with a PPID of 1

[Berlene Herren]

What OS? Try zeroing out your /etc/utmpx file, depending on the OS, telnetd maybe corrupting it. For 11.i, see PHNE_24829 (Incorrect records might be written into /etc/utmpx by telnetd when it exits).

Berlene


Berlene

[Todd Lehr]

We have discovered that this message is caused by users terminating their telnet sessions which then causes our application to runaway.


Thanks for everyones help