Igor, thank you for quick replying.
I read the page following the link you gave me. It addresses another problem. When I run 'inetd' from command line (bash) all works fine. That means there is not a configuration problem. The key information is that 'inetd' refuses ALL incoming connections when started as a service, no port is reachable. I think there's a problem with 'accept' system call. Michele Liberi ---------- Initial Header ----------- From : "Igor Pechtchanski" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date : Tue, 12 Oct 2004 12:18:50 -0400 (EDT) Subject : Re: inetd is unable to accept incoming connections when started as service on WinXP SP1 > On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, mliberi wrote: > > > I downloaded on October, 7 a fresh cygwin package set, then I installed > > it on an XP SP1 box. > > > > After reading inetutils*.README, I tried to setup inetd as a service, > > with the following steps: > > > > 1. added CYGWIN='binmode tty ntsec' to environment variables set > > 2.added c:\cygwin\bin to PATH environment variable > > 3.run 'mount' to ensure that /usr/bin, /usr/lib and / mountpoints have 'system' attribute set. > > 4.rebooted the box > > 5.installed inetd as service, /usr/sbin/inetd --install-as-service > > 6.manually started service using windows GUI > > > > All seems ok, ps -ef reports two instances of running inetd , as > > expected. > > But when I try a connection to any server present in /etc/inetd.conf, I > > always obtain a 'can't connect' error message. > > Example: > > ftp localhost > > ...... connection refused > > ftp> > > > > It seems that inetd can't 'accept' the incoming connection. > > > > If I start inetd from command line (not as a service), all works fine. > > > > Does anybody know how to get it working as a service? > > It's hard to guess given the amount of information you provided, but it's > possible that <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-10/msg00631.html> could be > useful for you as well. > Igor > -- > http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ > |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] > |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. > '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! > > "Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing > whatever you think is worth doing." -- Dr. Jubal Harshaw > ____________________________________________________________ Libero ADSL: navighi gratis a 1.2 Mega, senza canone e costi di attivazione. Abbonati subito su http://www.libero.it -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/