Services Bug

[John Bray]

On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 07:18 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 11:22 -0500, John Bray wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 12:54 +0100, T. Horsnell wrote:
> > > >On Wed, 6 Jul 2005 10:46:23 +0100 (BST), Jonathan Allen wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> Hi All,
> > > >> 
> > > >> I'm trying to enable rlogin and telnet services on a FC4 machine.  I
> > > >> use the system services menu program, select and tick the box for both
> > > >> services, save and exit.  But the service never starts and if I reopen
> > > >> the services menu program the boxes are unticked again.
> > > >> 
> > > >> What gives ?  Is this a bug ??
> > > >
> > > >What can you demonstrate by verifying the services with the command-line
> > > >tools ("chkconfig" and "service")?
> > > 
> > > You ought to see files like
> > > 
> > > /etc/xinetd.d/telnet
> > > /etc/xinetd.d/rlogin
> > > 
> > > with contents like:
> > > 
> > > # default: on
> > > # description: The telnet server serves telnet sessions; it uses \
> > > #       unencrypted username/password pairs for authentication.
> > > service telnet
> > > {
> > >         flags           = REUSE
> > >         socket_type     = stream        
> > >         wait            = no
> > >         user            = root
> > >         server          = /usr/sbin/in.telnetd
> > >         log_on_failure  += USERID
> > >         disable         = no
> > > }
> > > 
> > > 
> > > If 'disable = yes' then the service wont function.
> > > Try editing this. I dont know how this cooperates with
> > > the system-services app.
> > 
> > the services app appears to be completely unable to change the disable
> > setting.  i have tried to turn on services run by xinetd a number of
> > times now, and the only way that they can be enabled is to manually edit
> > the config file for them.
> 
> Does "chkconfig telnet on/off" not work either?

chkconfig seems to work here.  i played with it on several xinetd
services and turned them on and off and watched their config files
in /etc/xinetd.d

john