Wayne,
You run RH6.2?
Make sure you run the latest inetd, version 0.16-7.
I quote:
"The inetd server as shipped with Red Hat Linux 6.2 fails to close
sockets
for internal service properly. This could make services stop working
when
the system had leaked sufficient resources."
Regards
Gustav
Wayne Stout wrote:
>
> Greetings, all.
>
> I'm having a problem with a RH 6.2 server that's acting as a fax server
> for my company. It appears that under heavy loads, the rshd is dying.
> And of course, when it dies, most of the faxes that get lost are our
> purchase orders which in turn are the most important things we fax.
>
> Faxing is done from an internally developed Progress application that
> currently resides on an NCR Unix box. The old fax server is also an NCR
> box, but is no longer covered under maint., hence the push to get the
> linux box working. The app generates files that are rcp'd over to the
> fax server then an rsh command queues the fax.
>
> When all faxes are going through the linux server, I get "Can't get
> stderr port: Resource temproarily unavailable" errors on rshd and "Exit
> status 1" errors on inetd in my /var/log/messages file. If I split the
> workload up between the new and old fax servers, I get no errors on the
> linux box.
>
> This suggests to me that we're overwhelming either rshd or inetd with
> all of the fax requests. Can anyone tell me what I need to look at next?
>
> Thanks in advance...
>
> Wayne
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