Rick Johnson wrote: > Art Ross wrote: > > I run a Fundamentals of Linux class which is using RH7.3. I was > > teaching the installation and configuration of Samba last night and > > encountered a problem on some machines when the students restarted their > > super daemon 'xinetd'. This only occurs on a couple of machines and > > before I begin digging deeper, I was wondering if you could point in the > > direction of some troubleshooting resources or what you might suspect is > > the problem. > > After installing Samba including the samba-swat package, I have each > > adminstrator change the disable key in /etc/xinetd.d/swat file to > > 'disable = no'. They must then restart the xinetd daemon to make these > > changes take effect. Well, it doesn't on a couple of machines. > > Any help is appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Art > > Oddly - xinetd doesn't appreciate malformed config entries - double-check > all xinetd configs - perhaps diff them against a different machine and see > what's different. I remember with a recent upgrade of xinetd, the new > version no longer appreciated a method of logging I had chosen. Changing > some punctuation in the statement solved the problem. Might be something to > go on... > > And of course, are there any log entries in /var/log/messages? > > -Rick > -- > Rick Johnson, RHCE #807302311706007 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Linux/WAN Administrator - Medata, Inc. (from home) > PGP Public Key: https://mail.medata.com/pgp/rjohnson.asc > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Rick, Thanks for the tip. We finally decided to check the messages file and guess what we found. xinetd was failing a missing } at the end of a config file the students had to modify. We restarted xinetd and sure enough it worked. Is there any time that xinetd wouldn't work because of conflicting ports being requested by to different services? Best Regards, Art -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
