> I run SCO V and the recent problem occurred. All was OK and then all of
> a sudden, in the syslog the message:
SCO has been shipping System V operating systems for more than 10 years.
Be much more specific. If it's some version of SCO Unix or OpenServer,
`uname -X` will give you a useful version number.
Quote:> inetd[25588] : smp_set_id failed Interrupted system call, (no reason
> available),8
> inetd[250]: /etc/tcpd: exit 0x1
> inetd[25590] : smp_set_id failed Interrupted system call, (no reason
> available),8
> inetd[250]: /etc/tcpd: exit 0x1
> inetd[25593] : smp_set_id failed No child processes, (no reason
> available),8
> inetd[250]: /etc/tcpd: exit 0x1
> appeared
> and the last lines repeated forever with incrementing process numbers!
tcpd is the main program of TCP Wrappers, a separate public domain
software package that it seems you have installed on your system.
Quote:> I wouldn't mind so much if it hadn't gone and filled the whole damn hard
> disk up with this!
> A simple reboot and log clean up session fixed it, but does anyone have
> ANY ideas what happened???
Something went crazy with tcpd?
smp_set_id() is an OpenServer Release 5 function, so your OS version is
narrowed down to three possibilities (with several hundred variations of
important patches that you might or might not have installed).
I wonder if there were any other unusual messages in your syslog, after
you eliminated the repetitive inetd messages.
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