xinetd issue

I upgraded my server from Mandriva 2007 PowerPack x86_64 to Mandriva 2007 Spring PowerPack x86_64. Prior to the upgrade I had svnserve running as a system service with no issues. After the upgrade svnserve did not start at boot.
I contacted the subversion forum, but it came down to my xinetd is failing.

# /etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd restart
Stopping xinetd [FAILED]
Starting xinetd/bin/bash: xinetd: command not found

I do have xinetd-2.3.14-5mdv2007.1.x86_64.rpm installed. I have even tried
to uninstall and reinstall it, but it did not resolve my issue.

Can someone please assist?

It's telling you it can't find the command "xinetd" which likely means it doesn't know the path for the binary or that it doesn't exist where it specifies.

/etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd is a script so you can view it with the vi command. Look for the "start" function within the script to see what it is doing at that point.

I don't use Mandriva but on my RedHat the binary called from within the xinetd init script is /usr/sbin/xinetd.

Also some distros use inetd rather than xinetd (Debian for example). You might want to verify whether you have inetd already.

Here is an excerpt from my /etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd script:

# Local variables
NAME=xinetd
BINARY=$NAME
PROCESS=$NAME
LOCKFILE=/var/lock/subsys/$NAME
PIDFILE=/var/run/$NAME.pid

start(){
    # Check if it is already running
    if [ ! -f $LOCKFILE ]; then
	gprintf "Starting %s" "$NAME"

	# Need to get rid of localization for external services - 
	# it doesn't make much sense to have i18n on the server side here
	export LANG=C
	export LC_ALL=C
	daemon $BINARY -stayalive -reuse -pidfile $PIDFILE $EXTRAOPTIONS
	RETVAL=$?
	[ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && touch $LOCKFILE
	echo
    fi
}

So from what I can see 'daemon xinetd'.

I do not have a /usr/sbin/xinetd, which I cannot understand why, because I have xinetd-2.3.14-5mdv2007.1.x86_64.rpm which is supposed to install /usr/sbin/xinetd, and I have even uninstalled and reinstalled that package!

Hi, I was missing /usr/sbin/xinetd. I had previously uninstalled and reinstalled xinetd-2.3.14-5mdv2007.1.x86_64.rpm, and it had not worked, but I did it again and all is good now :-D.

Cheers guys, you've just sorted out my hotwayd problem.

I, too had noted that xinetd wasn't running properly, and had even re-installed it to no avail.

I've just done another re-install and bang it works! Glad I checked all the hotwayd conf files so many times now!

Stu
(mandriva 2007.1)