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Hi Chris,

	There was an error in the last line of inetd.conf.  This caused 
the system not to read the file and to not start inetd.  How about that!\

Thanks for the help,

Don James



On 5 Jul 2000, at 8:53, Chris wrote:

> I'm at work reading mail at home through a shell login so no promises,
> but if you mail me your file I'll take a look when I get a chance.
> 
> My first guess would be if you commented out a line and inserted a
> character by mistake while doing so.
> 
> For example
> 
> # auth  
> 
> and you have
> 
> '#auth   
> 
> or something similar
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 07:50:48AM -0500, dbjames@bga.com wrote:
> > Hi Chris, 
> > 
> > 	I'm not sure what constitutes a syntax error  in the inetd.conf 
> > file. 
> > 
> > Don 
> > 




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