Hello,
I've read a few of the SWAT threads around here related to the same problem I'm having but none have helped.

When I try to connect to localhost:901 I receive the error:
www.google.com could not be found. Please check the name and try again.

127.0.0.1:901 gives me the error:
The connection was refused when attempting to contact 127.0.0.1.

/etc/services contains:
swat 901/tcp


Can anyone help me resolve this?
Thanks

Hmm, include the http:// part

Have you sent a HUP signal to inetd or rebooted to get inetd to re read /etc/services?

swat is an xinetd service. You must enable swat to be used. It is in the scheme of apps that are considered "Unsafe" since the data passed is in clear text. These include telnet, rlogin etc.

I do not know what distro you are using, but typically from the text mode you can cd to /etc/xinetd.d directory and edit the file in there named swat. It probably has a line that reads disable = yes. Either change it to no or comment out the line. Save the file and then restart the xinetd daemon.
/etc/init.d/xinetd restart

You should be good to go.

On some distros, this swat entry may be in the /etc/ineetd file, but usually it will be in the directory I mentioned.

If you are using Red Hat (yuk!) in xwindows you can issue serviceconf and turn swat on in the GUI. From the black screen you can issue ntsysv and turn it on there. Don't forget to restart the xinetd daemon.

On SuSe, everything is done using Yast.




I suggest if you are new to the system that you visit www.webmin.com and download it. It is a great weeb based administration tool that will include tools for setting up swat, apache, ftp, well, basically everything!


Tony

It was so late I forgot to post xinetd.d/swat:

{
socket_type = stream
wait = no
protocol = tcp
only_from = 127.0.0.1
user = root
log_on_failure += USERID
server = /usr/sbin/swat
port = 901
disable = no
}

I'm using Fedora 2/ 2.6.6-1.427 and just disabled my firewall considering my winmodem still isn't fully working. It's still not working. Thanks for the suggestion of webmin amfoster.

Did you restart xinetd?

Yes, I did '/bin/kill -HUP -a xinetd'

>swat is an xinetd service.
Not allways. It runs from normal inetd on slackware.

Verbose, what browser are you using to connect to swat?
Try lynx http://127.0.0.1:901

Can you ping 127.0.0.1 ?

My guess is that a firewall or iptables is blocking the connection.