xinetd must be restarted every day

jdh · 01-31-2002, 10:08 AM

I'm running a new RH 7.2 server. Every morning when I come to work, I find that all network services have stopped at some time overnight--I restart xinetd (actually it's still running, I stop and start) and then everything works fine again. What could be causing this behavior?
Thanks.

acid_kewpie · 01-31-2002, 10:30 AM

if there's been a problem it should be listed in /var/log/messages.

scrupply · 03-06-2002, 11:27 PM

Is inetd.conf not used in RedHat 7.2? I am a newbie using Linux and a friend continues to tell me that inetd.conf has to be on the machine. I can't figure it out and I was trying to install Samba but the documentation tells me to place a few lines in the inetd.conf file. Any help would be great, thanks.

ryandelany · 03-06-2002, 11:38 PM

inetd was replaced with xinetd for various reasons in RH 7.1.

inetd used to have one file named /etc/inetd.conf that held all configuration for all the inet services. Now each service has a seperate config file in /etc/xinetd.d/

For example:

The telnet service uses /etc/xinetd.d/telnet
The ftp service uses /etc/xinetd.d/wu-ftpd

Samba runs as it's own service, and is not a part of inetd or xinetd. The configuration for Samba is in /etc/samba and the config file is /etc/samba/smb.conf

Ryan

ryandelany · 03-06-2002, 11:41 PM

One other thing...

If you are trying to install Swat in order to configure samba via a web browser, then swat is part of xinetd. So after you rpm install it, there should be a /etc/xinetd.d/swat file that needs to be modified in order to get swat working.

Otherwise, there is no connection between samba and inetd/xinetd

Ryan

scrupply · 03-07-2002, 12:14 PM

I am still trying to find out where the inetd.conf file is located. I did a locate and still couldn't find it. Any help?

ryandelany · 03-07-2002, 01:44 PM

/etc/inetd.conf

If you are running RH 7.1 or 7.2, you won't have this file at all. It has been replaced with /etc/xinetd.d/

Also, locate will only find files after you update the slocate.db with the updatedb command.

Ryan