[NCLUG] RedHat Enterprise 3 question
Sean Reifschneider
jafo at tummy.com
Wed Dec 8 04:20:52 MST 2004
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 08:36:32PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
>I am afraid I can't help with the xinetd part. But saying that
>chkconfig --list shows it is on implies to me that it is not an xinetd
>daemon but rather a standalone daemon instead.
chkconfig will also list xinetd services:
guin:~$ chkconfig --list | grep -e uucp -e xinet
xinetd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
xinetd based services:
uucp: on
My question is whether the chkconfig line that is being talked about is the
init.d sendmail or the xinetd sendmail. Since the original author was
talking about run-levels, it's pretty certain that they were talking about
totally the wrong thing.
One thing I'd mention is that you should try building a xinetd.d file by
passing your desired inetd.conf line to "inetdconvert", which will (try to)
convert it to the xinetd format.
The firewall suggestion is also a good idea, if "fuser -n tcp <port num>"
reports that something is running on that port, then it's obviously a
firewall. However, "telnet 127.0.0.1 <port num>" would also work in that
case.
When I first set up UUCP under xinetd it took me a bit to get it right.
The benefit of xinetd.d is that you don't have to worry about modifying an
/etc/inetd.conf as a packager, you can just install files. Also, chkconfig
can be used to enable/disable inetd services easily now (by changing
"disabled" in the file).
Sean
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Sean Reifschneider, Member of Technical Staff <jafo at tummy.com>
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