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- From: kenh@leps5.phys.psu.edu (Ken Hornstein)
- Subject: Re: biff not biffing
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- References: <1992Aug29.190229.19212@europa.asd.contel.com> <1992Aug29.202158.22016@europa.asd.contel.com> <1992Aug29.211845.21326@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 01:34:13 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug29.211845.21326@ccu.umanitoba.ca> mills@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Gary Mills) writes:
- >In <1992Aug29.202158.22016@europa.asd.contel.com> pascoe@rocky.gte.com (Dave Pascoe) writes:
- >
- >>commented out comsat in /etc/inetd.conf and sent a kill -1 to inetd
- >>and then uncommented comsat and sent another kill -1.
- >
- >>The comsat daemon was out to lunch for some reason. This is a common
- >>problem on machines which handle a lot of mail, since the comsat
- >>daemon can tend to get confused at to what state it's in when a SIGHUP
- >>to inetd comes along.
- >
- >I have seen this same behavior with other daemons started from inetd,
- >and I suspect that the bug is in inetd. It apparently assumes that
- >a particular daemon is running when it rereads its config file and then
- >refuses to start another one.
-
- I've seen this happen before with tftpd. At our site we use tftpd to download
- fonts to our X terminals. More than once I was adding or deleting a service
- to inetd.conf and when I sent inetd the HUP signal it refused to run tftpd
- again ("Hey, why do I suddenly get the error message 'Cannot load 8x12'?").
- Whoops :-) Killing and restarting inetd fixed the problem.
-
- --Ken
- again. I ended up haing
-