On Fri, 2001-09-14 at 08:30, Bart G. Denys wrote:
> John,
>
> Thanks for the help.
> Already made some progress. I had the sendmail filled out with my email
> address. I can now send using /usr/local/sendmail
>
> ISP problem is different: I don't get an email through my cable-ISP
> (charter communication). Email comes from a different provider (email
> address [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Additionally, I have an email account at
> the local hospital ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) that is secured and does NOT
> let you check mail via the net.
>
> I am reading through one of my books on how to setup Samba using SWAT.
> The Linux Bible states:
> Add a line to /etc/services: swat 901/TCP
> I did that.
> Add a line to /etc/inetd.conf: swat stream tcp nowait.400 root
> /usr/sbin/swat
> I can't find inetd.conf where is it ??????
Unfortunately, the Linux market moves faster than your documentation.
:)
RedHat 7.1 abandoned inetd in favor of xinetd. xinetd has neat
functions such as being able to deny based on service for a particular
host!! Also, you can use wrappers on individual services, so you can
say deny specifically radius information requests from host x....get it?
Remember, even though you're working with a pretty snappy desktop
system, you're also sitting on top of one of the most powerful servers
in the world.
Your *new* install info is as follows:
In your /etc/ directory is where all system configuration utilities
live. Your startup scripts (akin to autoexec/config) and various system
configuration files (akin to .ini files). Specifically, we're
interested in the Internet services stuff. You'll find a simple
configuration file called xinetd.conf that has the following contents:
#
# Simple configuration file for xinetd
#
# Some defaults, and include /etc/xinetd.d/
defaults
{
instances = 60
log_type = SYSLOG authpriv
log_on_success = HOST PID
log_on_failure = HOST
}
includedir /etc/xinetd.d
The long and short of this is that you can have 60 separate connections,
they must be logged...
But the important part is the last line telling you to include the
contents of the directory /etc/xinetd.d. Let's look at it's contents
and format:
amanda daytime finger klogin rexec
amandaidx daytime-udp gssftp krb5-telnet rlogin
amidxtape dbskkd-cdb imap kshell rsh
chargen echo imaps linuxconf-web rsync
chargen-udp echo-udp ipop2 ntalk swat
comsat eklogin ipop3 pop3s talk
telnet
tftp
time
time-udp
wu-ftpd
This is a listing of several simple text files listing service
attributes and settings. The one we're interested in here is swat.
Pulling swat into an editor, we find the following contents:
# default: off
# description: SWAT is the Samba Web Admin Tool. Use swat \
# to configure your Samba server. To use SWAT, \
# connect to port 901 with your favorite web browser.
service swat
{
disable = yes
port = 901
socket_type = stream
wait = no
only_from = 127.0.0.1
user = root
server = /usr/sbin/swat
log_on_failure += USERID
}
As you can see, there's an interesting line near the top saying "disable
= yes". Can you imagine what I'm going to say here? :)
What I typically do is comment the line out, and make a copy with my
settings. This is a good habit to get into, because it's saved my arse
countless times. The new file would look thusly:
# default: off
# description: SWAT is the Samba Web Admin Tool. Use swat \
# to configure your Samba server. To use SWAT, \
# connect to port 901 with your favorite web browser.
service swat
{
# disable = yes
disable = no
port = 901
socket_type = stream
wait = no
only_from = 127.0.0.1
user = root
server = /usr/sbin/swat
log_on_failure += USERID
}
Finally, to get all this reread, you have to restart the xinetd
service. People do this several ways. Some prefer to use the kill -HUP
command, some prefer to restart the service, etc. etc. *I* prefer to
restart the service via the provided shell scripts. That would be the
following command line:
# /etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd restart
This should make the service available, and you should be able then to
open a browser and point it to http://your.host.com:901 or
http://your.ip.com:901 to get your Swat interface.
If you have any problems, or any questions, just give me a buzz through
this forum, and I'll answer you as soon as I can.
Jerald Sheets
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