[linux-help] Re: inetd and xinetd

[Greg House <ghouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That's very strange. I didn't have to do any of that stuff to get mine 
working. I'll check what's on my machines when I go back to work next time.

Greg

On Friday 01 June 2001 10:59, you wrote:
> 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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