Public bug reported:
A mass-upgrade of Jaunty Beta got me xinetd 1:2.3.14-7ubuntu1. A message from
the installer,
copied below, shows it trying to convert an old-style "inetd" setup line to the
new-style "xinetd"
format. It fails, because the converter program "itox" is not given enough
options. Watch this:
--------- IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR XINETD USERS ----------
The following line will be added to your /etc/inetd.conf file:
9572 stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/sbin/tcpd
/usr/sbin/nbdswapd
If you are indeed using xinetd, you will have to convert the
above into /etc/xinetd.conf format, and add it manually. See
/usr/share/doc/xinetd/README.Debian for more information.
Suggested entry (automatically converted using itox):
service 9572
{
socket_type = stream
protocol = tcp
wait = no
user = nobody
You must use option -daemon_dir if you use tcpd
-----------------------------------------------------------
The last line here is emitted by /usr/sbin/itox. That utility seems to be
getting
invoked something like this:
echo "9572 stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/nbdswapd" |
itox
What it wants is something more like the following
echo "9572 stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/nbdswapd" |
itox -daemon_dir /dev/null
The final particle here looks should probably be some kind of directory name.
At this point my detective skills run out: I don't know what directory to
specify.
/dev/null is guaranteed to be wrong, but even with that wrong choice the itox
utility
at least survives long enough to produce a syntatically correct entry for use
with xinetd.
~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 9.04
Release: 9.04
** Affects: xinetd (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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[jaunty] xinetd upgrade invokes itox incorrectly
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/361169
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