Re: question

Zlatko Calusic (Zlatko.Calusic@CARNet.hr)
28 Nov 1997 21:26:39 +0100

Fertile Myrtle <blubber@linux.realideas.com> writes:

> Nov 27 09:09:10 linux inetd[169]: ident/tcp server failing (looping),
> service terminated
>
> I got this message in my kernel today while I was doing a tail -f
>
> what does this mean, does anyone know?
>
>

You get that when you access the ident service too frequently.
It is completely userlevel thing.

This simple script triggers it:

while /bin/true
do
telnet 0 auth < /dev/null
done

That's not a big problem, though.
It's just inetd protecting itself. Selfdefence. :)

Regards,

-- 
Posted by Zlatko Calusic           E-mail: <Zlatko.Calusic@CARNet.hr>
---------------------------------------------------------------------
	 The 11th COMMANDMENT - Thou shalt not be a smartass!