Michael Thanks for persevering. I ran the tail on messages as suggested. It turned out that the server= line in the /etc/xinetd.d/swat file is pointing to something that doesn't exist (it reads server=/etc/xinetd/swat i.e. itself). The log message shows that the server doesn't exist. That got me to digging about trying to find something else with swat in the name. There is no other item anywhere in the system so I figured that swat wasn't installed.
I then tried to install swat from disk three of the RH8.0 distribution and got a message that it requires samba 2.2.5 It turns out that I have version 2.2.7 as the Red Hat auto updater updated samba last week after the initial system install. So, I've now deleted samba, re-installed it from the distribution disk and guess what? It doesn't ask for disk 3 to install samba-swat. It just installs the common and client pieces from disk 2. So all along, swat was never installed. It gets better though.. I've tried to install swat from disk 3 again having just installed samba 2.2.5 from the disks and it still reports that it needs samba 2.2.5 to install and will not install the swat files. I've downloaded the samba 2.2.7a-1 Redhat Binary RPM from the samba web site and tried to install that but again it does not install the swat files. I've downloaded the source for 2.2.7a and read the doc about SWAT and it definitely says that a binary, some image files and a help file should be installed. Being new to Linux, I'm not confident about compiling my own stuff yet so do you or anyone else have a copy of the swat binary and associated files I can have/ get to? Kind Regards Mr Ashley Kitson www.bbcb.co.uk [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
