xinetd dead

robmainella · 09-22-2003, 11:25 AM

Hi everyone,
Why do I get a message "xinetd dead but pid file exists". Xinetd used to work. I tried rebooting the system and receive the same error. I looked in /var/log/messages and find the erros "missing service keyword line 1", "unexpected signal 11". Also I read something about removing existing PID files, how do I do that?

Thanks
Rob

LarryDoliver · 09-22-2003, 03:08 PM

PID file will be /var/lock/xinetd ; just delete it.

Did you edit the xinetd files by hand at some point? these live at /etc/xinetd.d/*

robmainella · 09-22-2003, 04:22 PM

yes, but I just changed the "disable = " line

robmainella · 09-22-2003, 06:47 PM

Thanks for the help. I found that the problem was when I would enabale a service to start by editing the file then disable it a copy was made. when i deleted the copies things started working again.

hillxy · 04-15-2004, 12:54 PM

can you explain a little bit more? what and where are the copies?

I can not restart it, and reboot does not work either. It is bad, since it is my printing server.

Thank!!