(That's why I added the "won't budge" part.)

Tracy Johnson
MSI Schaevitz Sensors

-----Original Message-----
From: Larry Barnes [mailto:[log in to unmask]]

If you do have unavailable ports (ususally they are owned by SYS #1) then do
an
abortio on each port.  Sometimes that will clear them.

"Johnson, Tracy" wrote:

> Do a SHOWDEV on all your devices.
>
> If some of your Network LDEVs show as UNAVAIL SYS,
> and won't budge.  That may be an indicator of
> something bad (System Table going corrupt?)
> and it may get progressive.
>
> We've had our latest Telnet patch in for about 3
> weeks and haven't seen this problem again.  It hit
> is for about 4 months in a row ... monthly.
>
> User's that network back in and unluckily hit those
> LDEVs again probably WON'T get a colon prompt.
>
> Tracy Johnson
> MSI Schaevitz Sensors
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simonsen, Larry [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>
> We have several users which connect to the system via telnet.  Both
> yesterday and today about the same time.  The network froze.  I looked at
> the console and there were 2 messages from the jinetd job.  The messages
> were
> Could not initialize data path with TCP.
> I aborted the jinetd job and everything is back functioning but no new
> telnet connections can be made.  (I'm sure that they will be when I start
> the job.
> I looked in the installing and managing arpa services manual and there is
no
> mention of this error.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas of what the cause of this might be?

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Larry Barnes
Director of I.T.
Mitek Corp.
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