I can't run SWAT. Asking for help.

[Craig White]

On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 06:59 +0300, Ivan Evstegneev wrote:
> Hello!!!
> 
> First of all I want say that I used this "how-to":
> http://samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/SWAT.html#xinetd
> as my guide and here I'll give the complete log of my actions:
> 
> 1) Locating the SWAT File:
> 
> this line describes the how-to's preferences:
> "/usr/sbin the default location on most Linux systems"
> 
>                           and I have this file in the same folder.
> 
> 2) Locating the SWAT Support Files:
>    
> this line describes the how-to's preferences:
> "frodo:~ # whereis swat
> swat: /usr/sbin/swat /usr/share/man/man8/swat.8.gz"
> 
> **** and this is what I got on my terminal:
> "[root at localhost ~]# whereis swat
> swat: /usr/sbin/swat    /usr/share/swat   /usr/share/man/man8/swat.8.gz"
> 
> **** as you can see there are two identical paths except the middle one, but I'll talk about it later.
> 
> 
> 3) We must now check where swat expects to find its support files.
> 
> this line describes the how-to's preferences:
> "frodo:/ # strings /usr/sbin/swat | grep "/swat"
> /swat/
> ...
> /usr/share/samba/swat
> frodo:/ #"
> 
> ******* here some little "spike" appeared, in my case I can only view 
>         the man pages for "strings" command but when I tried to run it, I got "command not found".
>         and 'cause of it I followed the next instruction:
> 
> "jht at frodo:/> find /usr/share/samba/swat -print
> /usr/share/samba/swat
> /usr/share/samba/swat/help
> /usr/share/samba/swat/lang
> /usr/share/samba/swat/lang/ja
> /usr/share/samba/swat/lang/ja/help
> /usr/share/samba/swat/lang/ja/help/welcome.html
> /usr/share/samba/swat/lang/ja/images
> /usr/share/samba/swat/lang/ja/images/home.gif
> ...
> /usr/share/samba/swat/lang/ja/include
> /usr/share/samba/swat/lang/ja/include/header.nocss.html
> ...
> /usr/share/samba/swat/lang/tr
> /usr/share/samba/swat/lang/tr/help
> /usr/share/samba/swat/lang/tr/help/welcome.html
> /usr/share/samba/swat/lang/tr/images
> /usr/share/samba/swat/lang/tr/images/home.gif
> ...
> /usr/share/samba/swat/lang/tr/include
> /usr/share/samba/swat/lang/tr/include/header.html
> /usr/share/samba/swat/using_samba..................................."
> 
> ******* but for the /usr/share/samba/swat I got nothing. But when I changed a path to "/usr/share/swat"
>         it described me all those files listed above. So now you see that the only difference between how-to's paths and mine 
>         is that I have swat supported files in "/usr/share/swat" folder and not in "/usr/share/samba/swat"... 
>         Actually I created "samba" folder and copied there swat files... but as you can observe it got no effect.
> 
> 
> 4) Enabling SWAT for Use.
> 
> this line describes the how-to's preferences:
> "The control file (or files) can be located in the file /etc/inetd.conf
> or in the directory /etc/[x]inet[d].d or in a similar location"
> 
> ***** So I found my "xinetd.conf" and added the following lines as they
> asked me: "# default: off
> # description: SWAT is the Samba Web Admin Tool. Use swat \
> #              to configure your Samba server. To use SWAT, \
> #              connect to port 901 with your favorite web browser.
> service swat
> {
> 	port    = 901
> 	socket_type     = stream
> 	wait    = no
> 	only_from = localhost
> 	user    = root
> 	server  = /usr/sbin/swat
> 	log_on_failure  += USERID
> 	disable = no
> }
> "
> 
> 
> ******and now my "xinetd.conf" file looks like this:
> 
> "#
> # Simple configuration file for xinetd
> #
> # Some defaults, and include /etc/xinetd.d/
> 
> defaults
> {
> 	instances               = 60
>         log_type                = SYSLOG authpriv
>         log_on_success		= HOST PID
>         log_on_failure		= HOST
> 	cps			= 25 30
> }
> 
> includedir /etc/xinetd.d
> 
> # default: off
> # description: SWAT is the Samba Web Admin Tool. Use swat \
> #              to configure your Samba server. To use SWAT, \
> #              connect to port 901 with your favorite web browser.
> service swat
> {
>         port    = 901
>         socket_type     = stream
>         wait    = no
>         only_from = localhost
>         user    = root
>         server  = /usr/sbin/swat
>         log_on_failure  += USERID
>         disable = no
> }
> 
> "
> 
> ******* Then I opened my firefox and wrote this command:        
>         "http://localhost:901/" but it didn't work...
> 
> 
>         Am I missing something? or doing something wrong? Any help will
> be gladly accepted. :))))
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/sbin/service xinetd restart  # as root

should work then...but I'm not a fan of swat.

Craig