[SunHELP] bootpd message in syslog

Jim Pennino jimp at specsol.com
Thu Apr 3 10:12:58 CST 2003


On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 10:50:59AM -0500, Simoncini, Matthew wrote:
> Hello gurus,
> 
> For a while now, we've been getting the following message in the syslog on
> one of our servers:
> 
> Apr  3 10:37:39 eck inetd[218]: [ID 858011 daemon.warning] /usr/sbin/bootpd:
> Hangup
> 
> We're not using bootp on this server and was wondering what would cause this
> message to populate our logs? If anyone has any insight into the cause and
> how I can stop whatever is causing it, your help would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Matthew Simoncini
> Boston Scientific / Accenture 
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Commenting out the bootp line in inetd.conf and kill -HUP of inetd
should make it go away.

-- 
Jim Pennino


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