Nick,
Try creating an empty file /etc/inetd.conf
Install the .rpm and let it write it's line to your inetd.conf.
>From there you will have to reflect what fam wrote in inetd.conf in your
xinetd.conf file.
For the last part you're very much on your own, but it shouldn't be too
hard to figure out what xinetd needs to correctly launch fam if you
already have the corresponding entry in inetd.conf.
Regards
Gustav
Nitebirdz wrote:
>
> On Sat, 7 Oct 2000, Nick Hudson wrote:
>
> > Ok that helps but answer me this why do i have a inetd.conf file in my /etc
> > directory?? if RH 7 no longer uses it?? Im tryin to install fam wich has
> > nothing to do with telnet or ftp or any internet app but yet its using it??
> >
> > Thx
> > Nick Hudson
> >
>
> If you're trying to install the equivalent of the File Allocation Monitor
> (FAM) daemon in IRIX, then it's looking for the inetd.conf file in order to
> add an entry there since that is the way the daemonis usually ran.
>
> Again, as some other people said, I don't think it would work with Red Hat
> 7 due to the fact that this release uses xinetd instead of inetd.
>
> By the way, since you asked in your original message what inetd is... it's
> also called the interned daemon or superdaemon. You can configure it to
> automatically start certain daemons when the system gets a connection
> through a certain port. For instance, whenever your system gets a request
> via port 23, inetd will spawn the telned daemon to reply to that request.
> Why use it? Well, that way you don't need to have the telnetd daemon
> running in the background constantly and can save some system resources.
> Another advantage: TCP wrappers. The inetd daemon checks the
> /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny file for security settings, etc.
> That's basically it, although there are some other things that could be
> said about it, of course. :)
>
> -------------------------------
> Nitebirdz
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