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Date:      Mon, 29 Oct 2001 21:06:21 -0600
From:      "Mario Doria" <madd@tecdigital.net>
To:        <cjclark@alum.mit.edu>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Strange INETD behaviour
Message-ID:  <003001c160ef$db03bcb0$0a00a8c0@midgar>
References:  <005b01c16034$575e2c80$0a00a8c0@midgar> <20011029164538.C224@gohan.cjclark.org>

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From the shell, as root: "inetd"

With no arguments.

Also, it won't start from /etc/rc.conf. I have the lines:
inetd_enable="YES"
inetd_flags="-wW"

Either way, it does not start. The only way I get it to work is by adding
the argument "-a <ip address here>"

It works by doing inetd -a 127.0.0.1



----- Original Message -----
From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net>
To: "Mario Doria" <madd@tecdigital.net>
Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 6:45 PM
Subject: Re: Strange INETD behaviour


> On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 10:44:05PM -0600, Mario Doria wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > I'm experiencing some strange inetd behaviour. I cvsuped my sources and
made
> > world today (sunday) with no errors. Now to the fun part:
> >
> > When I run inetd from the command line, it won't start, complains about:
> > inetd[7971]: -a (null): servname not supported for ai_socktype
> > inetd[7973]: -a (null): servname not supported for ai_socktype
> >
> > Now, if I run it like inetd -a 127.0.0.1 it starts perfectly. Also, I
did it
> > for all the IP addresses of the system and in each and every one of
them, it
> > started OK. What am I missing?
> >
> > Why it won't work?
>
> What is the exact command line you are trying that fails?
> --
> Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@alum.mit.edu


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