John,

Thanks for this info.  We have had problems with this and all we found was
to add sgi_fam to /etc/hosts.allow which is not a very good solution for
us.

-Connie Sieh
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 On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, John Franks wrote:

> We have noted with SL 3.0.2 that there are frequently a large number of
> error messages in /var/log/messages generated by sgi_fam.  They
> look like
>
> Jan 26 16:57:57 dmbr063 xinetd[6342]: libwrap refused connection to
> sgi_fam (libwrap=fam) from <no address>
> Jan 26 16:57:58 dmbr063 xinetd[6350]: warning: can't get client
> address: Transport endpoint is not connected
>
> In some cases they are generated fast enough to cause problems like not
> being able to log in.
>
> There is a workaround:  Add the line
>
>          flags  =  NOLIBWRAP
>
> to /etc/xinetd.d/sgi_fam
>
> For more info see
> http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=114316
>