Re: Bind errors in syslog

[Tony van der Hoff <tony@vanderhoff.org>]

On 16/02/12 18:02, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Tony van der Hoff wrote:
> >  From time to time, folloing appears in my syslog. Always in pairs,
> > always 10 mins apart:
> >
> > Feb 16 13:44:41 tony-lx inetd[1870]: tftp/udp: bind: Address already in use
> > Feb 16 13:54:41 tony-lx inetd[1870]: tftp/udp: bind: Address already in use
> >
> > Any suggestions as to what I can do to track down the cause of these
> > messages?

Thanks for your detailed reply, Bob.
> First, look in /etc/inetd.conf for a line configuring tftp. You might
> find a line there that looks similar to this:
>
>    tftp dgram udp wait root /usr/sbin/in.tftpd /usr/sbin/in.tftpd -s /var/lib/tftpboot

Yes, indeed:
tony@tony-lx:~$ grep tftp /etc/inetd.conf
tftp           dgram   udp     wait    root  /usr/sbin/in.tftpd 
/usr/sbin/in.tftpd -s /var/lib/tftpboot

> Then additionally you have probably installed one of the available
> tftpd packages in Debian and it started a daemon standalone.
>
>    dpkg -l | grep tftp
Yes:
tony@tony-lx:~$ dpkg -l |grep tftp
ii  tftpd-hpa                            5.0-18 
   HPA's tftp server


> For example you may have installed tftpd-hpa.  In which case it is
> already running a daemon.
>
>    $ ps -e | grep tftp
>     2154 ?        00:00:00 in.tftpd
Er, no:
tony@tony-lx:~$ ps -e | grep tftp
tony@tony-lx:~$

So, how to proceed from here?
Thanks again, Tony

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