Answering my own question here but incorporating this simple change
could save time/headaches for others.
> In 7.x versions of Mandrake, I could never get xinetd to work so
> I just used inetd and was fat, dumb and happy. Apparently inetd
> is no longer available so I tried using the 'powerful replacement'
> but can't get telnet or wu-ftpd services to start. Can someone
> please tell me the silly thing I've failed to do?
I wasn't silly afterall. Added the following to /etc/xinetd.d/telnet
groups = yes
Now telnet works every time. Wu-ftpd still gives trouble but only
on occasion when trying to ftp from Windoze (who cares?). Here's the
output from /var/log/daemons/errors
execv ( /usr/sbin/in.ftpd ) failed: Bad address (errno = 14)
Now that telnet is working I can login, su to root, restart xinetd,
then wu-ftpd again gives service with a smile. :o)
Regards,
Rick
