SuSE 9.1 inetd or xinetd ???

cwolf78 · 04-21-2005, 09:47 PM

I am currently setting up vsftpd on my SuSE 9.1 machine... I need to know if I am using inetd or xinetd ... also, is there a command to restart either one... say after I make changes to the vsftpd.conf file ? Does inetd/xinetd start when SuSE is booted ? Is there a way to make it do so if it does not already ???
thanks!

cwolf78

bigrigdriver · 04-22-2005, 05:10 PM

Open a term window, su to root, and enter the following commands: inetd -version and xinetd -version. There should be only one active, and this will tell you which one.
The man pages don't mention any method to restart, but they do say that xinetd is a daemon process: it starts when needed by one of the services it monitors. So, rough guess: stop the services which use xinetd, then restart in order to have xinetd re-read the conf files.