Thanks Larry. Your suggestion lead to the answer. There was one line in the manual I had overlooked:
If your inetd wants a symbolic service name instead of a raw port number, then put this in `/etc/services': cvspserver 2401/tcp and put --> cvspserver <-- instead of 2401 in `inetd.conf'. --- Jesse Driver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You're right. I am getting the following error in > /var/adm/messages each time I restart the inet > daemon: > May 3 16:44:04 v480 inetd[6314]: [ID 965992 > daemon.error] 2401/tcp: unknown service > May 4 10:32:14 v480 inetd[2890]: [ID 965992 > daemon.error] 2401/tcp: unknown service > > But I have defined the service exactly the way the > documentation says to do it: > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED]:# grep cvs /etc/services > cvspserver 2401/tcp > > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED]:# grep pserver /etc/inet/inetd.conf > # cvs pserver daemon > 2401 stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/bin/cvs cvs > -f > --allow-root=/usrd71/local/cvsroot/CVSROOT pserver > > > > > --- Larry Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Jesse Driver writes: > > > > > > >From the local system when I do a > > > "telnet hostname 2401" I get the following > > response: > > > telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: > > Connection > > > refused > > > > That means that inetd is not listening for > > connections on port 2401, so > > there's something wrong with your inetd > > configuration. Check your > > syslog for error messages. If that doesn't help, > > you may want to run > > inetd in debug mode (see the man page for > details). > > > > -Larry Jones > > > > Why is it you always rip your pants on the day > > everyone has to > > demonstrate a math problem at the chalkboard? -- > > Calvin > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam > protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Bug-cvs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-cvs > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Bug-cvs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-cvs
