Use tcpserver, you are most likely respawning the inetd process to
quickly.
Use tcpserver as a way to manage the incoming conections.
Paul D. Farber II
Farber Technology
Ph. 570-628-5303
Fax 570-628-5545
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On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Matthew Harrell wrote:
>
> Okay, this is a really strange sounding problem but I could use any ideas
> anyone has.
>
> I have three systems sending out mail in large quantities. One is the "master"
> as the other two send it all the administrative messages and it is in charge
> of parsing them. This machine is running a pretty much stock RedHat 5.2
> system.
>
> Anyway, all goes fine most of the time except occasionally (five times today)
> I will get a lot of incoming traffic on the server and inetd decides it wants
> to stop delivering on the smtp port. My line looks like
>
> smtp stream tcp nowait qmaild /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/qmail/bin/tcp-env
> /usr/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
>
> and when this happens I don't even get any notification from the tcpd log files
> denoting any kind of connection attempt. When I try to telnet to the smtp port
> I get the error
>
> telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
>
> but in all other senses of the word inetd works fine. All it takes to get my
> smtp connection back is a HUP of inetd but this is rather annoying anyway.
>
> Any ideas what the problem could be or where I should look?
>
> --
> Matthew Harrell Beauty is in the eye of the beer
> Simulation Technology Division, SAIC holder.
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