Solaris 7 question... 1

[bcny33]

Hello,

I'm getting these messages in the /var/adm/messages log file... Can anybody explain to me what they are?? Is something going on with the server... The server is an old Sparc20 server that seems to be running fine for us.... Here are the messages:

Apr 4 06:08:09 justice inetd[298]: na.diskinfo/rpc/udp: unknown service
Apr 4 06:08:09 justice inetd[298]: na.etherif2/rpc/udp: unknown service
Apr 4 06:08:09 justice inetd[298]: na.cpustat/rpc/udp: unknown service
Apr 4 06:08:09 justice inetd[298]: na.hostmem2/rpc/udp: unknown service
Apr 4 06:08:09 justice inetd[298]: na.iostat2/rpc/udp: unknown service
Apr 4 06:08:09 justice inetd[298]: na.ippath/rpc/udp: unknown service
Apr 4 06:08:09 justice inetd[298]: na.layers2/rpc/udp: unknown service
Apr 4 06:08:09 justice inetd[298]: na.lpstat/rpc/udp: unknown service
Apr 4 06:08:09 justice inetd[298]: na.snmpv2/rpc/udp: unknown service
Apr 4 06:08:09 justice inetd[298]: sender/rpc/tcp: unknown service
Apr 4 06:08:09 justice inetd[298]: sender/rpc/udp: unkown service


Thanks for any input on this... I appreciate it...
Vinny.

 

[spamly]

I haven't seen this before.

Since it is inetd creating the errors, you may want to check out your /etc/inetd.conf and see if anything there is creating the alerts. Also, inetd uses /etc/services to do the portname to portnumber lookup. If these entries in the /etc/inetd.conf are valid, you may be missing the entries in the /etc/services file.

 

[bcny33]

Thanks spamly-

You seem to be dead on right...I looked in the inetd.conf file and saw all of the following
na.diskinfo
na.etherif2
na.cpustat
etc.........Although I didn't see any entries in the /etc/services file that reference the services above....I guess I could actually comment them out of the inetd.conf file so that the messages "unknown Service" does not appear in the log files etc.... May have failed to tell you that I took over the server from someone else and just trying to clean up stuff like this... But it doesn't help that I'm just a novice Solaris Sys Admin.... Thanks for you help.... Let me know if you think commenting them out of the inetd.conf is a bad idea....

Thanks
Vinny