Too many inetd processes

[Neil Herring_1]

I have a L2000 running HPUX 11.00

The only application running is iplanet6.0 and until recently all was fine.

My inetd parent process keeps spawning one new child process every 10 mins until the total number of processes allowed is met and the then the server falls over and stops all processes except the basic OS one required at boot.

No changes have been made to this server recently and I have an identical server which is used for load balancing that is working fine.

Any thoughts?

[Kent Ostby]

Can you post your inetd.conf file?

Are you saying that there are multiple inetd daemons running or it keeps launching a new iplanet6.0 thread?

[rick jones]

Might check syslog to see what inetd is spawning. May have to up the logging level of inetd to see much though - the manpage for inetd should have details.

[Muthukumar_5]

Start inetd as,

# inetd -l

to get logging details. Hope the problem may be becuase of service configuration in /etc/inetd.conf file.

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Muthu

[Arunvijai_4]

Hi Neil,

It could be some problem with inetd entries. Did you check /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log for any warnings/error messages ??

-Arun

[Yogeeraj_1]

hi,

also verify your iplanet log files.

kind regards
yogeeraj

[Neil Herring_1]

The problem seems to have been with the inetd.conf. When I ran an rpcinfo command there was an error and it was clearly not running. We had to reboot the server this morning anyway and this seems to have resolved the problem as inetd only has one daemon and the rpcinfo command provides me with an output.

[Neil Herring_1]

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