Possible problems with inetd.conf

["Anand Pravin Shah (Andy)" <andy msistone com>]

How can we be sure if inetd.conf was read, when RedHat Linux 6.2 is booted 
up, or is it default ?

My question arises because, I use sendmail and my SMTP server is working 
and I am able to telnet to my SMTP port, but I am not able to telnet to my 
system (even as localhost) , nor am I able to telnet to my pop3 (110) and 
imap (143) ports, which are listed in my inetd.conf...

Any early help would be greatly appreciated... Please include my return 
address in your cc... as I am not a subscriber to the mailing 
list...(though I plan to)

My /etc/hosts.deny contains
ALL: ALL

My /etc/hosts.allow contains
ALL: 10.1.1.
(which is the ip series of my internal network)

My /etc/inet.conf contains

imap	stream	tcp	nowait.400	cyrus	/usr/sbin/tcpd	/usr/cyrus/bin/imapd	imapd
pop3	stream	tcp	nowait.400	cyrus	/usr/sbin/tcpd	/usr/cyrus/bin/pop3d	pop3d


My /etc/services (columns separated by tabs) contains

telnet	23/tcp	telnetd
telnet	23/udp	telnetd

pop3	110/tcp	pop3d
pop3	110/udp	pop3d

imap	143/tcp	cyrus
imap	143/udp	cyrus


The following transaction takes place (which might be strange) if I try to 
kill the inetd process... after making changes to inetd.conf

#ps -x |grep inetd<enter>
910 pts/1	S	0.00	grep inetd
#kill -HUP inetd<enter>
inetd:no process killed

After this if I run ps -x |grep inetd<enter>, it just returns back to the 
prompt, like the following...
#ps -x |grep inetd<enter>
#

After this if i give the sam ps command again, it returns another pid 
number, like the following...
#ps -x |grep inetd<enter>
915 pts/1	S	0.00	grep inetd
#kill -l 915
kill: bad signal number: 915

Are these returns normal... if this is the case, has my inetd.conf file 
read and everything is normal and the fact that I do not get telnet, imap 
and pop3 access, becuase the system refuses connection ("connection 
refused") because of some other problem...


Any reply will be highly appreciated...


Kind Regards,


Anand Pravin Shah.
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