Hi, Please respond to the list, not to me.
On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 05:03:57AM -0700, technomage wrote: > > Does it get started at all? Run "telnet localhost sane". Do you get a > > "connection refused" or does it wait for input? If it waits, saned > > runs ok. Otherwise check /var/log/messages (or wherever xinetd places > > its messages) for errors. > I get "connection refused" immediately Ok, so it's a xinetd issue, not a saned issue. Check the log files. > > Does the saned user and group exist? > no, and I am not sure how to add non-user groups/users to my system (and I > don't trust linuxconf to do it right). > perhaps I should place it in user = nobody, group=nobody? You can do that. It may not be wise for security reasons, however. For Debian, there is "adduser --system" for this kind of job. Bye, Henning
