Dear Gurus,
* My problem: the following message appeared every 2 secs on the console:
" Write: connection refused"
* My question: What does it mean and how can I find the culprit?
* Answers (thanks to all of you):
- Marie-Claude Vialatte (mcv_at_custsv.univ-bpclermont.fr) suggested that it
could come from the "write" utility with a non-running "writersv" daemon.
But it was probably not the case.
- Santosh Krishnan (santosh_at_heplinux1.uta.edu) also drew my attention to
"write" and suggested to change the write permission of the target terminal.
- From Craig.T.Biggerstaff_at_USAHQ.UnitedSpaceAlliance.com:
<"Connection refused" is the usual message you get when trying to open a
network connection to another machine that doesn't have a daemon
listening on the TCP port to which you are connecting.
So I would start by using netstat to see if that tells you anything.>
But netstat did'nt told me anything ...
- Lucien_HERCAUD_at_paribas.com was probably right in stating that the problem
was due to a daemon that had lost a socket and insisted to write
anyway...
- Jim Belonis (belonis_at_dirac.phys.washington.edu) and our favorite guru
Tom Blinn (tpb_at_zk3.dec.com) said that a message every 2 seconds means a
rather high CPU consumption and, therefore, that the culprit should be
found from "top" or "ls".
And indeed "ls" indicated an abormal CPU time for SYSLOGD (but syslogd
did not appear in the list given by top).
Not knowing exactly either the cause or the fix (no messages in the
log files), I just rebooted....
And the message disappeared.
Jean-Loup
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Received on Mon Nov 24 1997 - 15:11:24 NZDT