[linux-help] Re: inetd and xinetd

[Larry Bottorff <prenzl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This has been a hack. First, I got a RH6.2 xinetd-2.1.8.8-0.9.i386.rpm,
ran it, but it didn't come with the perl script to convert inetd.conf to
xinetd.conf. itox is supposedly too primitive, and in fact it was. I
uninstalled it. Next, I got xinetd-2.1.8.9pre15.tar.gz, built and
installed it, and it did have xconv.pl. But it wouldn't run because the
author used C-style commenting. Fixed it, ran it, got the xinetd.conf
finally. But I had no init scripts. Reinstalled the xinetd...rpm, which
had said scripts (5 or 6 scattered about), then uninstalled original
inetd...rpm. Booting, it chokes on xinetd. I see error messages in
.../rc3.d/S50xinetd. Comment out "offending" code (final case default),
reboot, see xinetd starting, test a few protocols: it works! But I still
have no great idea what a proper xinetd is. I suppose I could reinstall
the later ...9pre15. Does Debian do a better job with this sort of stuff?

On Thu, 31 May 2001, Greg House wrote:

> 
> On Thursday 31 May 2001 13:28, you wrote:
> > I'd like to install xinetd, but beyond inetd.conf conversions, I don't see
> > any docs on how to actually get Linux to use xinetd instead of inetd on
> > boot. Any ideas?
> 
> If you just install the rpm for it, it should configure itself to run at 
> startup.
> 
> Likewise on your ftp server. As I remember on RH 6.2, there's a package 
> called ftp-server*.rpm. Once you install that and (x)inetd, ftp will run when 
> a connection is requested.
> 
> Drop me a line if you have trouble getting it going, I'm doing this on 
> systems I set up at work. I scripted the setup, but I can go back and see 
> exactly what I did if you need.
> 
> Greg
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