Open System Services Management and Operations Guide (G06.25+, H06.03+)

Messages
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OSS Subsystem Messages
for the process that issued the message. If the program provides no identifier,
syslog appears.
For the inetd program, this identifier is inetd.
text
is the message text supplied by the OSS application program. The following
messages are most commonly displayed by the inetd program:
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echo/tcp: bind: Address already in use
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Service: Can’t set uid ’number’
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Service/Protocol: getpwnam ’user’, no such user
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Service/Protocol: No such user ’user’, service ignored
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Service/Protocol: server failing (looping), service
terminated
Cause. One of the following occurred:
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A site-written OSS application has sent an OSS operator message. The cause of
the message is application-specific. This message identifies an error condition.
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The OSS inetd program has encountered a recoverable or ignorable error. The
text messages listed previously under text indicate the following:
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The port for a requested service is already in use by another process; a
Guardian process is probably providing the indicated service.
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The OSS user ID (UID) or group ID number used by a program file entry in the
/etc/inetd.conf file is invalid.
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No entry existed for the user name user in the node’s user access
configuration file when the service was invoked; the entry for the service in the
/etc/inetd.conf file might be invalid.
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The number of requests for a service in the past minute exceeded the limit
allowed; the service is automatically reenabled after 10 minutes. One of the
following caused inetd to terminate the service:
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Too many hosts requested a service during the past minute.
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A broken client application program is requesting the service too often.
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A malicious user is running an application program to invoke the service in
a manner intended to deny access to the service by other programs.
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The invoked service program has an error that causes client application
programs to retry the service quickly.
Effect. The effect depends on the application.