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Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 12:04:40 -0700
From: Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu>
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On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 11:58:27AM -0700, William Ashworth wrote:

> Simply uncomment the line, then save (:q! in VI Editor)

":q!" quits without saving.  Use ":wq" or "ZZ" to save and quit.

> Then restart inetd by typing "inetd"

If the old inetd is still running, this won't work.  You can tell the
running inetd to re-read inetd.conf with:

kill -1 `cat /var/run/inetd.pid`

-- 
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