init and xinetd woes

Thu Aug 21 09:22:00 GMT 2003

>>> hello all,
>> I've been messing around with xinetd and init and I can't 
> seem to get them
> to play nicely together.
>> I've checked the archives and have reinstalled xinetd, sysvinit,
> initscripts, etc., run the appropriate config files 
> (overwriting existing
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> /etc/*config files) and I still can't get init to start xinetd.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Er this could have been a problem, do you mean you ran init-config and said
yes overwrite the /etc/rc and /etc/inittab ?
if so try reinstalling init-scripts, as the defaults created by init-config
are very basic defaults.
>> /var/log/init.log is empty
>>> net start init produces the following output:
>> INIT: version 2.84 booting
> INIT: Entering runlevel: 3
> INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel
>>>> $ ps -e |grep init
> 2916 3432 2916 816 ? 18 04:41:05 /sbin/init
>> $ ps -e |grep xinetd
> <blank>
>>> i tried doing "chkconfig --level 12345 xinetd on" but it 
> seemed to have no
> effect
>> $ chkconfig --list
>> sshd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
> xinetd 0:off 1:on 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
> xinetd based services:
> chargen: on
> chargen-udp: on
> daytime: on
> daytime-udp: on
> echo: on
> echo-udp: on
> ftpd: on
> imap: on
> rexec: on
> rlogin: on
> rsh: off
> rsync: off
> servers: on
> services: on
> talk: on
> telnet: on
> time: off
> time-udp: off
>> there are no init errors in the Event Viewer > Application logs.
>>> if i start xinetd "/etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd start" it starts 
> up alright, but
> as soon as i try to connect (for example, to imap) I get:
>> setuid failed. Permission denied (errno=13)
>> I understand this is because I'm starting the xinetd process 
> under the local
> user account and it needs to be started under the SYSTEM 
> account in order to
> setuid.
>>> if it makes any difference, my /var/lock/subsys dir is empty
>>> I've really done the best I can searching google and the archives for
> answers as to how to resolve this problem. I've spent about 3 
> hours trying
> to get it to work to no avail. I know this list's attitude towards the
> asking of RTFM questions, or repeating questions easily answered by
> searching the archives, but I'm really stuck with this one. 
> Please help.
>> -Jonathan Simms
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