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From: sean@coombs.anu.edu.au (Sean Batt)
Newsgroups: aus.aarnet,aus.pyramid,comp.sys.pyramid
Subject: netstat shows many finger processes in state CLOSE_WAIT
Summary: Are these OK?
Keywords: finger, close_wait, netstat
Message-ID: <sean.676649600@coombs>
Date: 11 Jun 91 14:13:20 GMT
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Organization: Computer Services Centre, Australian National University
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G'Day,

Pyramid 9825, OSX 5.1

I keep noticing that netstat reports many connections to the finger
port on this machine in the CLOSE_WAIT state. There are 7 of them
sitting there doing nothing at the moment. Last week, before our most
recent reboot, there were 39 of them.

Is that going to be any sort of a problem? Should it happen at all? I
admit we're running an old version of finger et al. No support for
fingering remote machines despite an "OOPS! Sorry! Fixed in the next
release," message from Pyramid 2 years and 2 major OS revisions ago.

Hints would indeed be appreciated...

Sean

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