Services Bug

[Michael Schwendt]

On Wed, 6 Jul 2005 13:43:26 +0100 (BST), Jonathan Allen wrote:

> T. Horsnell said:
> > 
> > /etc/xinetd.d/telnet
> > /etc/xinetd.d/rlogin
> > 
> > # 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.
> 
> Yes, they were disabled.  Editing them by hand and restarting xinetd.d
> started the services, then the system-services-config menus showed them
> as selected/enabled.

Weird. system-config-services does nothing else than running things like
"chkconfig telnet on" or "chkconfig telnet off" and for non-xinetd driven
services start/stop them with the "service" helper tool. That edits
the files and replaces the same disable=yes/no setting. Whether you
do it with chkconfig or system-config-services, makes no difference.


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Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at users.sf.net>
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