RedHat released an inetd fix for this today. If you're running a different distro, you may need to wait until they release a fix. Gabe On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 01:32:35PM -0600, Austad, Jay wrote: > I have a box that is not properly closing out it's tcp connections. If I do > a netstat --inet, it comes up with over 1700 connections in the state CLOSE. > lsof shows all of these using up my file handles, and I am having trouble > starting new processes on the box so I have to reboot it. > > Does anyone know how I can fix this? I have 2 machines which are identical > to this one and they don't have any problems. > > Jay > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gabe Turner | X-President, UNIX Systems Administrator, | Assoc. for Computing Machinery U of M Supercomputing Institute for | University of Minnesohta Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation | dopp at acm.cs.umn.edu "Dear Dr. Stupid: Why do I have to go to school?" -- Announcer "Your parents are aliens!! While you're at school, they shed their human skins and breathe dryer lint!!" - Dr. Stupid in "Ask Dr. Stupid" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------