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Re: XInetd & /etc/services Issue



Ben Stringer wrote:

On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 05:37, Jim Robinson wrote:



Now in /etc/services I create the port & protocol entries:-
platypusd       5124/tcp                # Platypus user utility daemon

When I restart xinetd however I get this error:
Oct 19 15:32:25 venus xinetd[7520]: Exiting...
Oct 19 15:32:25 venus xinetd: xinetd shutdown succeeded
Oct 19 15:32:25 venus xinetd: xinetd startup succeeded
Oct 19 15:32:25 venus xinetd[13568]: service/protocol combination not in
/etc/services: platypusd/tcp
Oct 19 15:32:26 venus xinetd[13568]: xinetd Version 2.3.12 started with
libwrap loadavg options compiled in.
Oct 19 15:32:26 venus xinetd[13568]: Started working: 4 available services

I have tried every which way I can think of to try and get xinetd to read
the correct lines from /etc/services but it just does not want to jive.



Do you use NIS or other alternative name services?


The /etc/nsswitch.conf be be used to specify an alternative lookup
service for the services mappings, however the default is to use
/etc/services

Otherwise, your configuration looks fine.



You could also add the following attribute to your platypusd service config file:

type = UNLISTED

That will let xinetd know that it shouldn't try to lookup the service.

Regards,
Matthew


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