... ciao: : on "8-30-2010" "Andreas Moroder" writ: : inetd[1397]: could not getpeername : according to this on other OSes getpeername is used : http://fxr.googlebit.com/source/usr.sbin/inetd/inetd.c?v=OPENBSD-CURRENT and from that: "44 * Inetd - Internet super-server 45 * 46 * This program invokes all internet services as needed. ----------------------^ 47 * connection-oriented services are invoked each time a 48 * connection is made, by creating a process. This process ---------------------------------^---------^ 49 * is passed the connection as file descriptor 0 and is 50 * expected to do a getpeername to find out the source host ----------^----------------^ 51 * and port." from my reading of that, 'inetd' is reporting an error of a child process, not one of its own making. 'getpeername' suggests a name resolution issue as reported by inetd. : Could you please explain me why you would start to look at bind ? i've had sendmail hang my system on dns failure. in fact, i test for a working dns before calling sendmail. : One strange thing we also see on the machine ist that : /proc/sys/fs/file-nr is constantly growing. May it be that getpeername did : stop to work because it needed a filehandle and did not get it ? i don't know enough about that, to even guess ... -- ... it's not what you see , but in stead , notice ... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
