From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 5 16: 5:47 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 28A1937B941 for ; Wed, 5 Jul 2000 16:05:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dbjames@bga.com) Received: from john ([204.181.162.73]) by bga.com ; Wed, 05 Jul 2000 18:05:40 -0600 From: dbjames@bga.com To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 18:13:03 -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: <39637AAF.16506.4BAA8C@localhost> In-reply-to: <20000705081425.A183@dialin-client.earthlink.net> References: <3962E08E.19612.13ED01@localhost>; from dbjames@bga.com on Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 07:15:26AM -0500 X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Crist, There was an error in the last line. This caused inetd not to start and not to start any of the daemons in the inetd.conf file. Thanks for you help, Don James On 5 Jul 2000, at 8:14, Crist J. Clark wrote: > On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 07:15:26AM -0500, dbjames@bga.com wrote: > > 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" > > Ah, well, in that case I would probably be led to believe that inetd > is not starting because there is a syntax error in > /etc/inetd.conf. Have you made some changes to /etc/inetd.conf? > -- > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message