>I'm hoping there's a setting I'm missing that limits the frequency of
>RSH logins, or?
How many sessions are attempting to connect at a time (roughly)?
It could just be that inetd is shutting down the service to prevent a
DoS attack. (yeh, i know -- stupid :)
Could you provide the line from /etc/inetd.conf for the "shell" service?
man inetd had this to say:
--
wait/nowait[.max]
The optional ``max'' suffix (separated from ``wait'' or ``nowait'' by
a dot) specifies the maximum number of server instances that may
be spawned from inetd within an interval of 60 seconds. When
omitted, ``max'' defaults to 40.
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Also, I've said it before and I'll say it again, use ssh .. it completely
replaces the r* packages and does so securely.
It might even avoid this problem altogether if it's due to inetd.
Regards,
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