xinetd forking

ulto · 09-04-2013, 08:12 PM

On a number of our RH 5.6 servers we use xinetd successfuly as part of our own product. However, the xinetd daemon sometimes forks another process for a number of minutes and then dissappears again, at least this is what Nagios is telling us.

My question is this, can I find out why intermittingly there appears to be two xinetd processes on the server and can I stop it from happening. Have tried to output xinetd logs but have run into a wall there.

pan64 · 09-06-2013, 12:39 AM

probably the second xinetd tries to serve a request.

unSpawn · 09-06-2013, 01:51 AM

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Originally Posted by ulto

On a number of our RH 5.6 servers

5U6 is stale: we've been at 5U9 for some time now.

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Originally Posted by ulto

(..) the xinetd daemon sometimes forks another process for a number of minutes and then dissappears again,

That's what Xinetd is supposed to do.

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Originally Posted by ulto

at least this is what Nagios is telling us.

Maybe instead tune your Nagios checks?

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Originally Posted by ulto

My question is this, can I find out why intermittingly there appears to be two xinetd processes on the server and can I stop it from happening. Have tried to output xinetd logs but have run into a wall there.

Start by explaining your application, posting the relevant Xinetd service config, running Xinetd in debug / verbose mode and posting relevant log excerpts?