Hi All,

I'm trying to run the xinetd daemon in debug mode. As per the docs, I have added EXTRAOPTIONS="-d" in /etc/sysconfig/xinetd file. Now the problem is, if the "init" process starts the xinetd daemon.....it fails. If i start it manually it runs fine. Please check the below output for a clear picture.

After the system is rebooted/started

# service xinetd status
xinetd dead but subsys locked
#

Then I log in as root and do...

# service xinetd start
(show's some verbose messages...)

# service xinetd status
xinetd (pid 21406 21403) is running...

This happens on both RHEL4 U4 and U6....may be due to both the updates have the same version of xinetd packages.(xinetd-2.3.13-4.4E.1)

Anyone knows how to fix this? or some kind of bug?

Thanks.

If Xinetd fails to start there should be clues in whatever it logs to. Better check syslog first.

Log is not giving any hint..still scratching my head...