inetd: wrapping (inetd)

[maujiq]

Hello,

ps lists 264 instances of wrapping inetd. The count varies, sometimes increasing (more than 500), sometimes decreasing (below 100).

Does anybody know, what this means? The system is working normal, I did not detect any anomaly beside this huge amount of wrapping messages from ps.

I use 8.0 in virtualbox 3.2.4, host is xp pro.

 

[anomie]

Presumably it means you're serving some daemons up from inetd(8). What does the output from % grep '^[^#]' /etc/inetd.conf show?

Also, what do you mean by "instances of wrapping inetd", exactly? Maybe post some examples from your process table.

 

[maujiq]

Hmm, I can not copy/paste here, because X does not work at this time.

inetd tells

ftp
telnet
shell
login
tftp

each both tcp and tcp6.

For counting the output of ps I used

ps ax | grep wrapping | grep -v grep | wc -l

The answer is 264.

 

[anomie]

I'm still not sure what you mean. Here is example output from one of my hosts:

# ps ax | grep '[i]netd'
 1330  ??  IsJ    0:06.35 /usr/sbin/inetd -a 10.90.17.230 -l

(Then again, this is from a FBSD 6 box.) Instead of counting lines, could you post full output from the first couple lines so we can see what you're matching?

 

[maujiq]

all lines are identical except the process number.

390  ??  I    0:00,00  inetd: wrapping (inetd)

The "wrapping" does not show up in any other outputline of ps.

 

[anomie]

Sorry, I'm not sure what that refers to. On FBSD systems, by default, tcp wrapper support is compiled into inetd.

> ldd /usr/sbin/inetd | grep 'libwrap'
	libwrap.so.4 => /usr/lib/libwrap.so.4 (0x2808e000)

But I have no idea whether that is related to the (ambiguous?) process table entries you're seeing. Maybe someone with a FBSD 8 box can help.