Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!spool.mu.edu!munnari.oz.au!manuel!coombs!avalon From: avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au (Darren Reed) Newsgroups: aus.aarnet,aus.pyramid,comp.sys.pyramid Subject: Re: netstat shows many finger processes in state CLOSE_WAIT Keywords: finger, close_wait, netstat Message-ID: Date: 11 Jun 91 15:45:39 GMT Article-I.D.: coombs.avalon.676655139 References: Sender: news@newshost.anu.edu.au Organization: Computer Services Centre, Australian National University Lines: 41 sean@coombs.anu.edu.au (Sean Batt) writes: >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 >-- >------------- Sean Sebastian Batt - sean@coombs.anu.edu.au -------- .______. >-------- Coombs Computing Section - Telephone: +61 6 249 3296 ----- | Damn |\ >-- Australian National University - GPO Box 4 Canberra City 2601 -- | Fine |/ >------------------------------------------------------------------- `------' I think i know the problem : my plan is a pipe and the fingerd doesnt die when the other end is terminated. (there was nothing on this end for the finger. :-) should all be better now. (I hope). i noticed the problem the other day when there were quite a few processes like this "nobody finger avalon" in the ps listing *gulp*. I'll kill the pipe ifyou like since the program needs to be executed when it comes back up (like ircd) to stop this happening. -avalon