Subject: Re: services looping
To: None <gelbard@ENGR.ORST.EDU>
From: George Coulouris <glc5@cornell.edu>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 03/30/1998 07:38:25
Nathan Gelbard wrote:
> 
> How does one fix this?
> 
> Mar 29 15:49:20 3jane inetd[23581]: tftp/udp server failing (looping), service
> terminated
> 
> The same happens with mountd -n once in a while - it spawns about 25 mountd
> processes, then dies.
> 
>         Nate

I got this when I was netbooting my sparc. Immediately after booting,
log in as root, kill mountd by hand, and restart it. Seemed to do the
trick for me.

No, I don't know why :-)

-- 
George L. Coulouris - http://www.tc.cornell.edu/~glc5/
NetBSD 1.3 - free, multiplatform unix. http://www.netbsd.org/