XInetd & /etc/services Issue

[Matthew Howard]

Ben Stringer wrote:

>On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 05:37, Jim Robinson wrote:
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>>Now in /etc/services I create the port & protocol entries:-
>>platypusd       5124/tcp                # Platypus user utility daemon
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>>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.  
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>Do you use NIS or other alternative name services?  
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>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
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>Otherwise, your configuration looks fine.
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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