From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 26 11:47:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from relay3-gui.server.ntli.net (relay3-gui.server.ntli.net [194.168.4.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC2B037B406 for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 11:47:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pc2-card3-0-cust8.cdf.cable.ntl.com ([213.107.2.8] helo=rhadamanth.private.submonkey.net ident=exim) by relay3-gui.server.ntli.net with esmtp (Exim 3.03 #2) id 15xC11-0001HR-00; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 19:47:35 +0100 Received: from setantae by rhadamanth.private.submonkey.net with local (Exim 3.33 #1) id 15xC0o-000C7z-00; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 19:47:22 +0100 Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 19:47:22 +0100 From: setantae To: Humayun Ashraf Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question... Message-ID: <20011026194722.A31393@rhadamanth> Mail-Followup-To: setantae , Humayun Ashraf , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20011026064602.5553.qmail@meowmix.chek.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011026064602.5553.qmail@meowmix.chek.com>; from humayun@gotmail.com on Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 06:46:02AM -0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 06:46:02AM -0000, Humayun Ashraf wrote: > Oct 26 00:46:33 shell inetd[777]: /var/run/inetd.pid: Permission denied > Oct 26 00:46:33 shell inetd[777]: ftp/tcp: bind: Permission denied > Oct 26 00:46:33 shell inetd[777]: comsat/udp: bind: Permission denied > Oct 26 00:46:33 shell inetd[777]: ntalk/udp: bind: Permission denied These messages would indicate that you started inetd as a non-root user. > Oct 26 00:53:13 shell inetd[783]: start: No such file or directory > Oct 26 00:56:23 shell inetd[797]: /etc/inetd.conf: syntax error > Oct 26 01:15:22 shell inetd[834]: /etc/inetd.conf: syntax error > Oct 26 01:15:45 shell inetd[843]: /etc/inetd.conf: syntax error > Oct 26 01:20:41 shell inetd[870]: /etc/inetd.conf: syntax error As for these, there are certainly no errors in the inetd.conf you posted (included below for the sake of the archive as it was under a different thread), so I can only think that these were transient errors that you may have entered in the file when you were trying to fix the other problem, perhaps ?? Ceri Humayun's /etc/inetd/conf : # $FreeBSD: src/etc/inetd.conf,v 1.44.2.3 2000/10/04 07:58:51 kris Exp $ # # Internet server configuration database # # @(#)inetd.conf 5.4 (Berkeley) 6/30/90 # ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/libexec/ftpd ftpd -l comsat dgram udp wait tty:tty /usr/libexec/comsat comsat ntalk dgram udp wait tty:tty /usr/libexec/ntalkd ntalkd # # IPv6 services # ftp stream tcp6 nowait root /usr/libexec/ftpd ftpd -l Ceri -- keep a mild groove on To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message