At 09:48 PM 09/25/2001 +0100, you wrote: >Hi > >I installed a few security updates via Mandrake Update to my MDK 8.0 system >over the weekend. One of them was an updated xinted. All seemed to go >well. > >Tonight I found the need to telnet to my machine, and couldnt, no telnet >service. I tracked it down to the fact that xinetd wasnt running. Further >investigation found that the binary in /usr/sbin was called xinetd-<version >number> and not just plain xinetd. > >Renaming it now has it starting up again from cold boot. > >Anyone else come across this, or is it old hat? It isn't just on Mandrake 8.0 -- I had the same problem on 7.2 . I made /usr/sbin/xinetd a symbolic link to /usr/sbin/xinetd-<version_number>, and it works fine now (not that I use xinetd for much, since I've turned off most of the services it provides). Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems & Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida
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