Durn it! I keep sending to the sender not the list.. Apologies Henning.. Thanks for your help,
Problem was twofold: 1/ incorrect/etc/hosts setup 2/ /etc/inetd.conf wrong program location i.e. /usr/sbin/saned Cheers, Ben. Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: > [cc'ed to sane-devel] > > Hi, > > On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 08:51:33AM +1000, [email protected] > wrote: > >>>Does the "connection closed" happen immediately? >>> >> >>yes it does, I presume this is bad? > > > Yes. saned isn't even started. > > >>>>So the machines seem to be talking.. >>> >>> >>>Check the syslog of the server for messages. >>> >> >>nothing appears in syslog.. > > > That means that saned isn't running. Does it work if you disable saned > in inetd.conf and run it manually (saned -d128)? > > >>[net] connect_dev: net_init (user=(null), local version=1.0.3) >>[net] connect_dev: argument marshalling error (Connection reset by peer) > > > Strange. I'd expect "[net] connect_dev: [0] failed to connect > (Connection refused)" if saned didn't run. > > Are you sure that the program that is run from saned is really saned? > For me it looks like it's a script or other program that sends garbage > to stdout. > > Bye, > Henning > >
