On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 09:39:27AM +0200, Florian Stöhr wrote:
> [...]
> # Output of ps -aux | grep inetd
> 
> root    2932  0.0  0.3    80   448 ?? S     9:30AM   0:00.00 inetd -l 
> root    2931  0.0  0.3    80   448 ?? S     9:30AM   0:00.00 inetd -l 
> root    2924  0.0  0.3    80   448 ?? S     9:29AM   0:00.00 inetd -l 
> root    1761  0.0  0.4    76   464 ?? Ss    4:44PM   0:00.01 inetd -l 
> 
> 
> Some new things I experienced: After some time, the instances disappear
> without being killed, and ftpd starts. But ... can't be true that another
> host has to wait 2 minuts (!) till receiving ftpd's input prompt!

May be a DNS issue. Before starting ftpd inetd will try to resolv
the IP address and then do a reverse lookup with the host name.
Check that reverse and forward DNS is working properly

Alternatively you can try to remove the '-l' from inetd command line.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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