AIX 4.3.3 going purple on netstat test after 3-5 day s

Thats along the lines of what I was thinking a little while after I sent that.
Im going to try an OS patch and see if that fixes it.

-Jeff

On 11/7/06, Henrik Stoerner <user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid> wrote:

On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 10:48:53AM -0600, Jeff Newman wrote:

I sent an earlier message about both 4.2.0 and 4.2.0 with the latest
patches going totally purple after 3-5 days. The process hobbit gets
hung up on is netstat -an | grep ^tcp

The ~client/tmp/msg.<hostname>.txt file doesn't get updated.

Well, if the client gets "stuck" while collecting the data it sends to
Hobbit, then as far as Hobbit is concerned there are no data for this
host - which is what the "purple" status is really telling you.

So the question is: Why does "netstat -an" stall like that? I'm not in
any way an AIX expert, but it sounds like a buggy "netstat" to me ...


Regards,
Henrik