[NCLUG] RedHat Enterprise 3 question

[Steve Chadsey]

On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 03:16:15PM -0700, James Cizek wrote:
> 
>   I am used to the old inetd where it was nice and simple
>   and you edit one file to make a change.  Since ES uses
>   xinetd, I am having trouble starting a new service.
>   I have added a new file in my /etc/xinetd.d for the new 
>   service (the new service is a sendmail that i want spawned
>   at a very high debugging level)  I added the new service
>   name and port to /etc/services  I issued 'service xinetd restart'
>   and it restarts.  The machine is still refusing connections
>   on that new port.  chkconfig --list shows that my new service
>   is on and is set to be on at run levels 2 3 4 5
>   Am I missing something?  I thought it was so much simpler
>   when you just had to edit inetd.conf....   8-)

I haven't messed with xinetd in some time, but I recall that most of the
issues I had with it not starting a service had to do with the presence
of a "disable = yes" directive (or some such) in the specific xinetd
service file.  Could that be tripping you up?

-- 
Steve Chadsey <tyr at teiresias.net>