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To: Ruiyuan_Jiang/Advantage_KBS_at_LotusXchg@njcorp.akbs.com
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Subject: Re: The message from inetd 
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Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 17:04:31 -0800
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Ruiyuan_Jiang/Advantage_KBS_at_LotusXchg@njcorp.akbs.com wrote in message ID
<9510298176.AA817699698@njcorp.akbs.com>:
> 
>   I am trying to start inetd under FreeBSD v2.1 and I got a bunch messages.
>   I don't know what's wrong. Can you tell me how to solve the problem that
>   I have? I enabled nntp port in inetd.conf (the line looks like: nntp
>   stream    tcp  nowait....). Thanks in advance.

You don't need to start inetd, you just need it to reload the inetd.conf.

use ps to find the PID of inetd, then do

kill -HUP <pid>

THese messages are produced 'cos inetd is already running...

Gary