> From: Dave Dykstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 10:10:46 -0600
> Subject: Re: rsync daemon
>
> I noticed this same problem on my redhat 6.2 machine last week. Check
> /var/adm/messages. Mine reported
>
> inetd[415]: rsync/tcp server failing (looping or being flooded), service
terminated for 10
> min
>
> I could see no way to configure Linux inetd to avoid that, so I ended up
> starting rsync as an independent daemon out of /etc/rc.d/rc3.d.
Funny, the same problem just came up on the Cyrus IMAP mail server list too. A quote:
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| cyrus-imapd-1.6.22-1 on Redhat 6.2 log message:
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| >Dec 19 09:32:36 isacmail2 inetd[437]: imap/tcp server failing (looping
| or being flooded), service terminated for 10 min
This message means that inetd thinks that imapd is being called too often,
check the man page for inetd to see how to increase the limit.
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