Re: [SLE] xinetd not starting

From: Dave Howorth (dhoworth_at_mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk)
Date: 09/29/05

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    Jerry Feldman wrote:
    > On Tuesday 27 September 2005 2:11 pm, Arun K. Khan wrote:
    >
    >>On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 16:17 +0100, Dave Howorth wrote:
    >>
    >>>I'm trying to enable xinetd on Suse 9.3 using YaST. I go to the xinetd
    >>>page, click enable (the table is enabled) and finish, but xinetd
    >>>doesn't appear to start. The file /var/log/xinetd.log doesn't exist, so
    >>>I guess it's never been started. Next time I go into the Yast page,
    >>>xinetd is shown as disabled again. Enabling or disabling some service
    >>>makes no difference.
    >>>
    >>>Does anybody have any idea what's wrong or where I can look for clues?
    >>
    >>Try using the CLI "chkconfig" program to set your services.
    >
    > Go to a command line (Konsole or xterm), log in as root, and start it
    > manually:
    > /usr/sbin/rcxinetd
    > This will either start xinetd or tell you why it did not.

    Well that started it :)

       cpepc210-3:/etc # /usr/sbin/rcxinetd start
       Starting INET services. (xinetd) done

    We'll see whether it keeps running in the long term!

    Many thanks, Dave 

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