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42 Chapter 2

Internet Daemon

Troubleshooting inetd

This section explains the kinds of error messages you may see

regarding the operation of inetd. The messages will appear either on

the console or they will be sent to the $STDLIST for inetd or both,

depending upon the message’s level of importance.

The following diagnostic messages are generated by successful and

failed attempts to establish a connection to the Internet Services.

Message Explanation

An inetd is

already running

You attempted to start inetd when one is already

running. You may invoke inetd a second time if

you use the -c, -k, or -l option, but you cannot run

multiple copies of inetd.

There is no

inetd running

You attempted to reconﬁgure inetd when none was

running. The ﬁrst time you run inetd, you must

stream it as a job or run it interactively without

specifying the -c (reconﬁguration) option.

Inetd not found This message occurs if you invoke inetd with the

-c option and inetd cannot reread its

conﬁguration ﬁle (which is the purpose of -c). This

occurs when the original Internet daemon dies or is

killed without releasing its semaphore. (The

Internet daemon locks a global semaphore to

indicate when it is running to prevent users from

running more than one inetd at a time.) To ﬁx the

problem, enter the inetd -k command to remove

the semaphore left by the previous Internet

daemon, then restart inetd.