RedHat released an inetd fix for this today.  If you're running a different
distro, you may need to wait until they release a fix.

Gabe

On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 01:32:35PM -0600, Austad, Jay wrote:
> I have a box that is not properly closing out it's tcp connections.  If I do
> a netstat --inet, it comes up with over 1700 connections in the state CLOSE.
> lsof shows all of these using up my file handles, and I am having trouble
> starting new processes on the box so I have to reboot it.
> 
> Does anyone know how I can fix this?  I have 2 machines which are identical
> to this one and they don't have any problems.  
> 
> Jay
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