> I'm having trouble after upgrade to the latest Redhat linux, which
> uses xinetd, instead of inetd.
>
> NNTP clients cannot connect to the server and a downstream server
> can't suck news.
>
> The available information on xinetd is sketchy. Has anybody
> encountered this problem before?
>
> Here are the dnews.log entries from the downsteam system:
> 24 15:25:21.610 1:info: (Connection refused) nntp: Socket closed,
errno=111 calvin.
> tivoli.com
> 24 15:25:21.610 1:info: (Connection refused) nntp_perror: socket_read
failed
> 24 15:25:21.610 1:info: nntp: Closing socket chan[1] 13 calvin.tivoli.com
> 24 15:25:21.610 1:info: chan: Currently 1 users from (noarea)
> 24 15:25:21.610 :info: suck: Drat channel closed or failed to open
properly or
> timed out
>
It sounds like you have the default nntp server responding on the port, look
in /etc/xinetd.d for an NNTP
file that might be starting something and disable or remove it.
ChrisP.
