Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 22:10:24 -0600 From: "Scot W. Hetzel" <hetzels@westbend.net> To: "Andrew Nelson" <andrew__nelson@hotmail.com>, <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: pop3/tcp server failing (looping), service terminated Message-ID: <015501c27f01$1b2f3a50$12fd2fd8@Admin01> References: <F346nmGq3MSL2pBIXnn000078fc@hotmail.com>
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From: "Andrew Nelson" <andrew__nelson@hotmail.com>
> Hi,
>
> I've had this problem start occuring
> recently and now it's happening some
> 10 times per day.
>
> The entry in the message log is:
> inetd[91]: pop3/tcp server failing (looping), service terminated
>
> I looked up the error and found a source
> which suggested we increase the number
> of allowed connections per minute in inetd,
> but it doesn't make a difference (I have
> nowait.2000 now!)
>
Acording to the "inetd" man page:
The maximum number of outstanding child processes (or ``threads'') for
a
``nowait'' service may be explicitly specified by appending a ``/''
fol-
lowed by the number to the ``nowait'' keyword. Normally (or if a value
of zero is specified) there is no maximum. Otherwise, once the maximum
is reached, further connection attempts will be queued up until an
exist-
ing child process exits.
So the problem is you need to use:
nowait/2000
and then restart inetd with:
killall -HUP inetd
Scot
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