Thanks a million to Chris who came up with the solution. I finally got to
test this theory this afternoon on a machine local to where I work -
wasn't game to do it on a remote one and most of our problems have been on
remote ones up till now.
Up till now we have had to reboot the machine. This fixes the problem
nicely. You also need to restart inetd at some stage.
You use le0 or hme0 - see /etc/hostname.* to find out which interface is
specific to your machine.
On Tue, 12 Aug 1997, Chris Medaglia wrote:
> Hi Sue,
> I haven't heard of this problem specifically, but you might be able to
> save yourself a reboot if you bounce the interface. I've seen problems
> where a previous session will hold onto the socket in TIME_WAIT and not
> let go, then the deamon cannot reuse the socket. Try this:
>
> ifconfig le0 down
> ifconfig le0 up
>
> Use whatever your interface name is instead of le0, and make sure you
> are at the console.
>
> Good luck,
>
> Chris Medaglia
> Putnam Investments
> Andover, MA USA
> 508-974-8326
> ----------------------------------------------
> Sue Gray wrote:
> >
> > Hi SM's
> >
> > We have had a reoccuring problem on our 690 running Solaris 2.5.1
> >
> > Occasionally inetd dies, stopping all services. When it is restarted,
> > telnet still doesnt work - the port appears to be tied up by something.
> > The only solution we have been able to find is to reboot which is not good
> > when we have multiple users trying to do work on the machine.
> >
> > I remember this happening a couple of years ago on the same machine - only
> > the telnet port got tied up without inetd dying. I wonder if it is
> > related.
> >
> > Anyone have any ideas or heard of this happening?
> >
> > Sue
> > ------------ ------------
> > Sue.Gray@Unisa.Edu.Au Infrastructure Team
> > Phone: +61-8-8302-3529 Fax: +61-8-8302 3577
> > Information Technology Unit, University of SA, The Levels, SA 5095, Australia
>
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Sue.Gray@Unisa.Edu.Au Infrastructure Team
Phone: +61-8-8302-3529 Fax: +61-8-8302 3577
Information Technology Unit, University of SA, The Levels, SA 5095, Australia
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