CONSTANT inetd Error Messages

[Ryan Funduk]

Hey,

I got a quick problem here (actually it was a long explanation but winblows
decided to crash and I lost the original copy of this message hahah).

Anyway, I edited /etc/inetd.conf (btw, I'm using OpenBSD) and uncommented
the lines that says the following:

telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/libexec/telnetd telnetd
telnet stream tcp6 nowait root /usr/libexec/telnetd telnetd

And now (almost reminicent of windows) for no apparent reason that I can
figure out I get these error messages every ten minutes (literally!).

I've read on the internet about this error but the people who have them are
always attempting something specific and it puts the messages in
/var/log/messages... I'm not having THAT problem, this dumps to the screen
every time and it's not just telnet giving me the error... Here's a little
clip.

I get each of these messages 3 times in a row every ten minutes:
Mar 5 12:33:07 snoobis inetd[22239]: ident/tcp: bind: Address already in use
Mar 5 12:33:07 snoobis inetd[22239]: ident/tcp6: bind: Address already in
use
Mar 5 12:33:07 snoobis inetd[22239]: comsat/tcp: bind: Address already in
use
Mar 5 12:33:07 snoobis inetd[22239]: comsat/tcp6: bind: Address already in
use
Mar 5 12:33:07 snoobis inetd[22239]: daytime/tcp: bind: Address already in
use
Mar 5 12:33:07 snoobis inetd[22239]: daytime/tcp6: bind: Address already in
use
Mar 5 12:33:07 snoobis inetd[22239]: time/tcp: bind: Address already in use
Mar 5 12:33:07 snoobis inetd[22239]: time/tcp6: bind: Address already in use

If I 'kill -9 22239' it just comes up as a different number 10 mins later.

I've also check 'ps' (of course), this is the output, and I've tried killing
each of these but they either replace each other or nothing changes.

# ps
PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND
19056 C0 Is 0:00.11 -csh (csh)
19977 C0 R+ 0:00.00 ps
83 C1 Is+ 0:00.02 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyC1
15779 C2 Is+ 0:00.02 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyC2
12714 C3 Is+ 0:00.02 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyC3
20198 C5 Is+ 0:00.02 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyC5

So either I'm missing something or this is kind of messed up...

Thanks for any help, of course, and I hope I can figure this out so I'm not
stuck with this TRASHY Outlook Express junk.

- Ryan Funduk

[Rich Winkel]

"Ryan Funduk" <fun...@rogers.com> wrote in message news:<l832c.89720$sl.4...@news01.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com>...

> I get each of these messages 3 times in a row every ten minutes:
> Mar 5 12:33:07 snoobis inetd[22239]: ident/tcp: bind: Address already in use

>(etc...)

Do you have two copies of inetd running?
Type:
ps auwwx|grep inetd

Rich