ps ax lists all processes currently in memory, that are running on your
system. you pipe, with the | character, the output of ps ax to the grep
command, which then parses that input for xinetd. the output returned means
xinetd is not running on your system.
jason
>
> Mike,
>
> thanks for the repsonse.
>
> "ps ax | grep xinetd" returns:
>
> 978 pts/3 S 0:00 grep xinetd
>
> that is all. have no idea what this tells me...
>
> as far as your second paragraph i am not real sure what this means. but i
> put my understanding of this paragraph together with the fact that having
> linuxconf-web as the sole occupant of this directory that this is the only
> daemon being ran by xinetd.d? and that the linuxconf-web is a config file
> for that service? could you give me an RPM that would send a config file
> into this directory so i could get a feel for this process?
>
> thanks.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Burger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 1:15 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: inetd vs. xinetd
>
>
> Not a heck of a lot, to tell the truth. If you do "ps ax | grep xinetd",
> you should see that it's running.
>
> If you want specific daemons to run from xinetd, as they might have from
> inetd, you can usually find them as RPMs already precompiled for RH7,
> which will go and install a config file into /etc/xinetd.d for you. At
> that point, you might just need to do a "killall -HUP xinetd" to get it
> to reread that xinetd.d directory.
>
> On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Paul Garcia wrote:
>
> > I have read from this list the change that has been done re:
> this file. i
> > have installed the default server for RedHat 7.0 and can only find the
> > directory /etc/xinetd.d, and the only entry within this directory is a
> file
> > named 'linuxconf-web'.
> >
> > after reading 'A Guide to the Inet Daemon' by Eric Warmenhoven (off of
> the
> > linux.com web site), i can see that this file controls permissions to
> > offered services. my question is then, what do i have to install to
> enable
> > the use of this daemon?
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > Paul Garcia
> >
> >
> >
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