From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 5 5: 8:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bga.com (mail5.realtime.net [205.238.128.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AAE4537BE12 for ; Wed, 5 Jul 2000 05:08:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dbjames@bga.com) Received: from john ([204.181.162.73]) by bga.com ; Wed, 05 Jul 2000 07:08:04 -0600 From: dbjames@bga.com To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 07:15:26 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: inetd not running Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <3962E08E.19612.13ED01@localhost> In-reply-to: <20000704232801.D325@dialin-client.earthlink.net> References: <39627B55.21040.31EEFA6@localhost>; from dbjames@bga.com on Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 12:03:33AM -0500 X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 4 Jul 2000, at 23:28, Crist J. Clark wrote: > On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 12:03:33AM -0500, dbjames@bga.com wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am running FreeBSD 4.0. I noticed that inetd is not > > running? > > > > In my /etc/defaults/rc.conf file, inetd_enable="YES" and > > inetd_flags="wW" > > > > Any suggestions as to why inetd is not running? > > I assume that is a typo, > > inetd_flags="-wW" # Optional flags to inetd Hi Crist, Yes, I get an error message when the computer boots: "starting standard daemons: inetd cronJul 5 07:04:14 don inetd[149]: /etc/inetd.conf: syntax error" Yes, that was a typo, it should have been inetd_flags="-wW" This one inetd_enable="YES" is not a typo. TIA, Don James > > Is what is in /etc/defaults/rc.conf. > > Do you have 'inetd_enable="NO"' in /etc/rc.conf. Is inetd(8) leaving > any messages in /var/log/messages? Did you see inetd mentioned at > boot? Any error messages pop up with it? > -- > Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message