On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 11:50:52AM -0500, Zembower, Kevin enlightened us: > Matt, you're amazing. I don't know which of the two commands did it, but > it works now, at least minimally. > > I didn't know about the chkconfig command; I'll have to investigate it.
It configures which services start on what runlevel. It also conveniently manages xinetd resources. I'm guessing there was a disable = yes; in your amanda xinetd script. > I HUPped xinet with 'kill HUP <pid-of-xinet>' and also > '/etc/init.d/xinet reload', but that might not have done the same as > 'service xinetd restart' > You did it the hard way :-) service foo args is equivalent to /etc/init.d/foo args Less typing involved, generally. Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263