Hi All

I just recently ran "who" command o find out how many session connected
to my boxes. I can name all connected sessions. but i found out another
strange thing in backend. there are so many telnet processes in
backend. most of them were running more than 10 days. also, they both
have parent ID coming from /usr/sbin/inetd.

USER GROUP PID PPID %CPU NI TT ELAPSED TIME
COMMAND
root system 757804 1790076 0.0 20 - 14-03:42:19
00:00:00 rpc.ttdbserver 100083 1
root system 811068 1790076 0.0 20 - 13-00:52:58
00:00:00 telnetd -a
root system 1118428 1790076 0.0 20 - 01:20:37
00:00:00 telnetd -a
root system 1261666 1790076 0.0 20 - 6-23:26:16
00:00:00 telnetd -a
root system 1478870 1790076 0.0 20 - 6-23:21:18
00:00:00 telnetd -a
root system 1790076 1839262 0.0 20 - 21-16:06:31
00:00:00 /usr/sbin/inetd
root system 2175066 1790076 0.0 20 - 7-01:37:10
00:00:00 telnetd -a
root system 2207996 1790076 0.0 20 - 12-22:03:18
00:00:00 telnetd -a
root system 2347082 1790076 0.0 20 - 01:42:23
00:00:00 telnetd -a
root system 2453568 1790076 0.0 20 - 13-09:40:35
00:00:00 telnetd -a
root system 2592938 1790076 0.0 20 - 04:49:37
00:00:00 telnetd -a
root system 2887772 1790076 0.0 20 - 13-02:04:13
00:00:00 telnetd -a
root system 2981966 1790076 0.0 20 - 13-01:17:25
00:00:00 telnetd -a
root system 3018858 1790076 0.0 20 - 10-05:12:30
00:00:00 telnetd -a
root system 3149842 1790076 0.0 20 - 11:53
00:00:00 telnetd -a
root system 3407938 1790076 0.0 20 - 9-04:49:10
00:00:00 telnetd -a
root system 3686434 1790076 0.0 20 - 13-02:47:40
00:00:00 telnetd -a
root system 4444250 1790076 0.0 20 - 12-00:54:03
00:00:00 telnetd -a
root system 4698148 1790076 0.0 20 - 13-01:21:28
00:00:00 telnetd -a
root system 4710442 1790076 0.0 20 - 8-03:34:42
00:00:00 telnetd -a
root system 5030110 1790076 0.0 20 - 33:28
00:00:00 telnetd -a
root system 5046506 1790076 0.0 20 - 7-03:18:31
00:00:00 telnetd -a
root system 5742756 1790076 0.0 20 - 7-03:23:38
00:00:00 telnetd -a
root system 5775568 1790076 0.0 20 - 8-21:44:22
00:00:00 telnetd -a
root system 5869742 1790076 0.0 20 - 6-21:46:55
00:00:00 telnetd -a
root system 5922840 1790076 0.0 20 - 9-06:05:24
00:00:00 telnetd -a
root system 6045948 1790076 0.0 20 - 12-03:44:44
00:00:00 telnetd -a

any idea?

thanks in advance,

Frank