terry white wrote: > : but there seems to be a correlation between the getpeername call in inted and > : the freeze of the machine, so I prefer to avoid inetd in this case . > > i tend to think that solution cosmetic at best, and at worst, a > misdirected effort. my reading of the 'inetd' manpage does not suggest > it calls 'getpeername', It calls getpeername() to determine whether the connection originates from port 20 (ftp-data), and refuses it if it does (to prevent FTP "bounce" attacks): http://ftp.fr.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/src/usr.sbin/inetd/inetd.c Personally, I think that the inetd messages are unlikely to be related to the system freezing. They just happen to be the only thing in the "messages" log file. The sort of things which will cause a hard lock up (i.e. requiring the use of Alt-SysRq to reboot) won't log anything in "messages". If they're logged anywhere (which isn't guaranteed), it's more likely to be "kernel". -- Glynn Clements <glynn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- 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
