xinetd fills /var/log/messages in Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Issue
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Using the echo-dgram service in xinetd with the default settings for "cps" (50 10). When reaching the limit of 50 messages, xinetd writes lots of entries (~1.4 million) to the /var/log/messages file. The entries look like this:
Jan 30 13:43:33 dl380x1969 xinetd[25668]: 1 descriptors still set Jan 30 13:43:33 dl380x1969 xinetd[25668]: 1 descriptors still set
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.2
- xinetd-2.3.14-33.el6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9
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