xinetd init script - reload terminates redirected services

[Neil Wilson]

Binary package hint: xinetd

If you are using the 'redirect' service of xinetd, the redirection forks a separate copy of xinetd for each service.

e.g

service vnc-redirect
{
 type = UNLISTED
 socket_type = stream
 protocol = tcp
 user = nobody
 wait = no
 port = 50000
 redirect = 10.245.134.12 5903
}

When you try and do a 'service xinetd reload' the current init script is missing a reference to the pidfile on its reload line and does a 'killall' on all xinetd processes - incorrectly terminating anything that uses an internal service like redirect.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: xinetd 1:2.3.14-7ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: User Name 2.6.35-22.34-virtual 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-virtual x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Jan 18 14:30:27 2011
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xinetd

[Neil Wilson (neil-aldur)]

This is fixed in natty by the upstart job conversion. (version 1:2.3.14-7ubuntu4)

[Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar)]

Neil, thanks for the excellent bug report!

Confirmed on lucid and in sid in chroots.

I'll nominate the bug for lucid and maverick, and I forwarded it to Debian. Since the natty upstart job "does the right thing", marking this as Fix Released.