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 [log in to unmask] 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 >