Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 10:42:01 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Inetd: bug or expected behaviour Message-ID: <19980519104201.A21253@ucb.crimea.ua> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980518154809.9951M-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>; from Doug White on Mon, May 18, 1998 at 03:49:20PM -0700 References: <19980518172333.A14723@ucb.crimea.ua> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980518154809.9951M-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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On Mon, May 18, 1998 at 03:49:20PM -0700, Doug White wrote: > On Mon, 18 May 1998, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > Recently I've switched from bootp to isc-dhcp2. > > They both listen on udp port 67, and I had the > > standard entry for bootpd in my inetd.conf: > > > > bootps dgram udp wait root /usr/libexec/bootpd bootpd > > > > When I've finished with DHCP configuration file (dhcpd.conf), > > I (as usually) commented out the string for ``bootpd'' above > > in inetd.conf, killed -HUP inetd, and tried to run dhcpd. > > > > I was unable to run it with the following diagnostic: > > ``Unable to bind, address already in use''. > > > > There was no bootpd process, and even when I killed inetd itself, > > the dhcpd was unable to bind to the 67 port. > > Wait for a little bit or reboot and see if that clears it up. Most likely > bootpd didn't die cleanly (or inetd) so the kernel thinks someone is still > using the port. After a while it'll free the resource. > I've figured out where was my problem. My shell script issued /bin/sleep, which wasn't killed along with its parent. netstat(1) saw me the PCB, fstat(1) saw me the sleep process. Regards, -- Ruslan Ermilov System Administrator ru@ucb.crimea.ua United Commercial Bank +380-652-247647 Simferopol, Crimea 2426679 ICQ Network, UIN To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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