[linux-help] Re: inetd and xinetd

[Lars von dem Ast <prenzl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am talking about RH6.2. My RH7.1 has xinetd default, including a 
/etc/xinetd.d directory full of scripts (xinetd.conf then just points to 
it), which the 6.2 rpm doesn't seem to set up. But then it doesn't 
provide the good conversion either from inetd.conf to xinetd.conf, and 
it doesn't supercede inetd once installed....necessitating the weirdness 
described. IMHO, rpm in this example is rather blunt and ignorant. BTW 
the "..../rc3.d/S50xinetd" is just a link back to /etc/init.d/xinetd (as 
are the other .../rc* scripts), but the error message on boot mentioned 
.../rc3.d/S50xinetd specifically. Does that mean it didn't try to do 
anything with S50xinetd in the other rc*'s until rc3.d? Somewhat 
mysterious to this beginner. This whole exercise was just to be able to 
properly follow a sockets tutorial that wanted xinetd. I'm no sys guru 
and I don't know my Linux boot that well. Much to learn....


Greg House wrote:

>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?
>>
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