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If you are starting SWAT with xinetd it has to look like this:
## /etc/xinetd.d/swat
service swat
{
port = 901
socket_type = stream
wait = no
only_from = localhost
user = root
server = /usr/local/samba/bin/swat
log_on_failure += USERID
disable = No
}
-----
Write in /etc/hosts.allow
swat : localhost : allow
The chkconfig command works for SysV services, those with init files in /etc/rc.d/init.d/ directory.
SWAT is run from xinetd and has a file in /etc/xinetd.d/ directory as Donald1000 says...
That file usually has "disable = yes" by default, so that needs to be changed to "disable = no", then do
service xinetd restart.
chkconfig's job is to read the level numbers in the intro to the /etc/rc.d/init.d files and then create shortcuts in the various rc~.d directories to match those numbers and runlevels for starting and stopping.
eg
# chkconfig: 2345 10 90
It doesn't know about files in any other directories...
Now, that doesn't mean the services like swat can't live in /etc/rc.d/init.d
Using xinetd is a choice.
By default, swat uses xinetd to start and stop, not running as a standalone server,
It does this to take advantage of hosts.allow, hosts.deny & tcp_wrappers for it's security.
A standalone server is just that. It has to have built in security, (and can of course always be run from xinetd, if you chose that way). Some servers don't like starting and stopping like that. They use child processes to do that. eg squid, apache, bind...
swat has 1 level of security... hence uses the extras from xinetd etc.
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