Symptoms
Repeated attempts by unprivileged users to stop the inetd server may transition the inetd service to the “maintenance” state, thereby moving all internet services managed by inetd(1M) to the “offline” state.
To determine the state of the inetd service, the following command can be run:
$ svcs inetd STATE STIME FMRI maintenance 12:00:23 svc:/network/inetd:default
Workaround
To prevent this issue from occurring until the patches listed in section 5 can be applied, the Unix domain socket file “/var/run/.inetd.uds” may be deleted after the inetd server starts. If this file has been deleted, the following commands must be run (as ‘root’ user) to restart or disable the inetd service:
To restart the inetd service:
# pkill inetd
To disable the inetd service:
# svcadm disable inetd # pkill inetd
Resolution
This issue is addressed in the following releases:
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