Re: [SLE] xinetd not starting [solved]

On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 18:25:53 -0500 Bruce Marshall wrote:

On Saturday 12 February 2005 06:01 pm, rkimber@ntlworld.com wrote:

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On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 12:55:39 -0500

Bruce Marshall wrote:

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On Saturday 12 February 2005 11:10 am, rkimber@ntlworld.com wrote:

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I have a new installation of 9.2, but cannot start xinetd either from the command line or via yast2. I didn't have this problem with 9.1

I'd appreciate suggestions.

Error messages (when trying the console start) ??

"Failed"

What messages do you get in /var/log/messages at the time of the failure?

What does /usr/sbin/xinetd give you for error messages?

It turned out that there was something in a configuration file for a service that I wasn't using that xinetd objected to, and it was exiting when it encountered it. Simply removing the file from xinetd.d solved it. That seems rather poor program design to me. I should have thought a better approach would be for xinetd not to make that particular service available and to start with the validly configured services, rather than just giving up altogether. - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/