Re: [x]inetd.conf??

[Bob McClure Jr <robertmcclure earthlink net>]

On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 11:06:14AM -0500, Marty Landman wrote:
> At 12:50 AM 2/8/2004, Bob McClure, Jr. wrote:
> >On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 07:23:34PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote:
> >
> >> fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from mail.ulster.net
> >
> >Not sure what the cause of that is.
> 
> Bob, I found a bunch of newsgroup postings on this very error and 
> apparently it's due to sendmail not running.

Hmm.  Ok.

> >Check to see if sendmail is running:
> >
> >  service sendmail status
> >
> >If not running, try
> >
> >  service sendmail start
> 
> # service sendmail status
> sendmail is stopped
> # service sendmail start
> Starting sendmail: makemap: error opening type hash map access.db: 
> Permission denied
> make: *** [access.db] Error 73
> 554 5.0.0 No local mailer defined
> 554 5.0.0 QueueDirectory (Q) option must be set
>                                                            [FAILED]
> 
> 
> >As for xinetd, it is installed and surely running, and its various 
> >services are controlled by config files in /etc/xinetd.d/.
> 
> # more /etc/xinetd.d/
> 
> *** /etc/xinetd.d/: directory ***

Yep, can't do that.

> [root penguin root]# ls -l /etc/xinetd.d/
> total 4
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root          317 Jan 25  2003 rsync

That's all?  Here's a short listing of mine:

auth         daytime-udp  ktalk                  rlogin    sgi_fam  time
chargen      echo         linuxconf-web.rpmsave  rsh       talk     time-udp
chargen-udp  echo-udp     ntalk                  servers   telnet   wu-ftpd
daytime      finger       rexec                  services  tftp

Precious few of those are needed, but they ought to be there.

> <rsync listing snipped>
> 
> >It may be that your firewall is on max.  Go to The Fine Manual
> >
> >http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/custom-guide/
> >
> >and read particularly Chapters 13 and 23.
> 
> I set security level to none when installing since this is on my intranet

That's the right thing to do.

> <snippage>
> 
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I'll hold further comments until your other posting.  That's where at
least one of your problems is.

Cheers,
-- 
Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
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