From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 5 16: 6:30 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 46D6037BB9F for ; Wed, 5 Jul 2000 16:06:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dbjames@bga.com) Received: from john ([204.181.162.73]) by mail5.realtime.net ; Wed, 05 Jul 2000 18:05:40 -0600 From: dbjames@bga.com To: Doug Barton 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.2694.4BAAAA@localhost> In-reply-to: <39635D8A.20E2765@gorean.org> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Doug, I started commenting out lines in inetd.conf. It was the last line that had the error. This caused inetd not to run. Thanks for your help, Don James On 5 Jul 2000, at 9:08, Doug Barton wrote: > dbjames@bga.com wrote: > > > > Hi Mike, > > > > I tried that and I get the following error message: > > > > "Jul 5 07:30:00 don inetd[290]: /etc/inetd.conf: syntax error" > > > > I'm not sure what this message means. > > It means, "Please don't send HTML encoded mail to a public mailing > list." No wait... it doesn't mean that. It means that somewhere in your > inetd.conf page there is an error. Try commenting out all lines but one > in that file, then try to start inetd. If it starts, then kill it, > uncomment one more line, and try again. Repeat this procedure till you > find the offending line, then fix it. :) > > Good luck, > > Doug > -- > "Live free or die" > - State motto of my ancestral homeland, New Hampshire > > Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message