Re: SOLVED: inetd protection and automated builds

[Nils9]

Thanks! I know that inetd on FreeBSD has this -R 0 option (which i was looking
for) but the RadHat6.2 comes with inetd w/o such options. I ended up installing
xinted, and converted the .conf to it. Thanks, it works great, problem solved!

-Nils Jakobson
SWH Technology

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry Jones" <address@hidden>
To: "Nils9" <address@hidden>
Cc: <address@hidden>
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 5:53 PM
Subject: Re: inetd protection and automated builds


> Nils9 writes:
> > 
> > I have people running automated build scripts which fetch files from CVS
> > (CVS runs on RedHat), and now it happens that the inettd locks down
> > the service for 10 minutes - flood protection. We tried to insert waitstates
> > between CVS requests, it helped, but it gets soo long to build that way.
> > What are your reccomendations on this topic? How to disable this inetd
> > feature?  Could not find anything in manpages.
> 
> Go read the inetd man page again, carefully.  I've never seen an inetd
> that didn't have *some* way of adjusting the rate limit documented on
> the man page.  Sometimes it's a command line option to inetd, other
> times it's part of the entry in the config file.  And check that you're
> really running inetd -- some systems use xinetd instead, in which case
> you need to read its man page instead.
> 
> -Larry Jones
> 
> I hate being good. -- Calvin
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