Re: strange log messages - inetd
On Tue, 2001-11-27 at 03:31, Roger Keays wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Has anybody seen this message in their /var/log/syslog?
> Nov 27 19:10:59 bilby inetd[31178]: /usr/sbin/tcpd: exit status 0x1
> Nov 27 19:10:59 bilby nmbd[3012]: connect from 192.168.0.6
> Nov 27 19:10:59 bilby inetd[31178]: /usr/sbin/tcpd: exit status 0x1
> Nov 27 19:10:59 bilby nmbd[3013]: connect from 192.168.0.6
> Nov 27 19:11:00 bilby inetd[31178]: /usr/sbin/tcpd: exit status 0x1
> Nov 27 19:11:00 bilby inetd[31178]: netbios-ns/udp server failing
> looping), service terminated
>
> The message from tcpd is repeated many times. I am using Debian Woody,
> and restarting samba or inetd has no effect on these messages. Samba
> still seems to work correctly from the remote machine, but nmbd seems to
> be returning an error!?
>
> The entry in /etc/inetd.conf looks like this:
> ..
> netbios-ns dgram udp wait root /usr/sbin/tcpd
> /usr/sbin/nmbd -a
I get this occasionally. I've never been able to diagnose the problem
short of nmbd going nuts and trying to spawn over 100-200 processes.
Check your /var/log/samba/log.nmbd for anything usefull other than
looping and failing stuff, maybe you'll get lucky and find out why it
goes crazy.
I can fix it with a killall nmbd followed by restarting inetd by an
/etc/init.d/inetd restart has usually been sufficient to cure the
symptoms but not the disease. Do you have a wins server assigned for
your network?
--mike
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