That's a pretty classic symptom of a dead inetd when you are able to ping a box but essentially nothing else works.
Here's a sample script, inetdchek.sh:
# Checks to see that inetd is running
# 07/27/1999 acs only execute in run level 3
typeset PROCESS=inetd
typeset TDIR=${TMPDIR:-/var/tmp}
typeset LOG=${TDIR}/inetdchek.log
typeset ERRLOG=${TDIR}/inetdchek.err
readonly PROCESS LOG ERRLOG
PATH=/usr/bin:${PATH}
export PATH
run_state()
{
typeset -i RSTAT=0
typeset RS=$(who -r | awk '{ print $3 }')
RSTAT=${?}
if [[ ${RSTAT} -ne 0 ]]
then
RS="-1"
fi
echo "${RS}"
return ${RSTAT}
} # run_state
typeset -i STAT=0
typeset RS1=$(run_state)
STAT=${?}
if [[ "${RS1}" -ne 3 ]]
then
exit ${STAT}
fi
ps -ef | grep "${PROCESS}" | grep -q -v grep
STAT=${?}
if [[ ${STAT} -eq 1 ]]
then
/sbin/init.d/${PROCESS} stop >> ${LOG} 2>>${ERRLOG}
sleep 5
/sbin/init.d/${PROCESS} start >> ${LOG} 2>>${ERRLOG}
STAT=${?}
fi
exit ${STAT}
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Your crontab entry should look something like this:
2,12,22,32,42,52 * * * * /root/bin/inetdchek.sh # make sure inetd is running
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Note: Do this AFTER you have looked for and applied and inetd related patches.
If it ain't broke, I can fix that.
