From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 20 23:30:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from matrix.zssm.zp.ua (matrix.zssm.zp.ua [212.8.32.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B05537B404 for ; Thu, 20 Jun 2002 23:30:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from server.hermes-comp.zp.ua (germes-comp.zssm.zp.ua [212.8.32.132] (may be forged)) by matrix.zssm.zp.ua (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g5L6MUo58400; Fri, 21 Jun 2002 09:22:33 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from stalker@hermes-comp.zp.ua) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by server.hermes-comp.zp.ua (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57B2738302; Fri, 21 Jun 2002 09:27:07 +0300 (EEST) Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 09:27:07 +0300 (EEST) From: Alexander V Zubchenko To: Holt Grendal Cc: Subject: Re: Strange inetd problem In-Reply-To: <20020620193316.11722.qmail@web11606.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20020621092352.Y21649-100000@server.hermes-comp.zp.ua> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greetings! On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Holt Grendal wrote: > When we try to start inetd (with everything commented out of /etc/inetd.conf) For what You need to start inetd, that is not listening for any connections, at first? > we get this error: > > Jun 20 15:29:49 fox inetd[1376]: -a (null): servname not supported for ai_socktype Looks like usage of -a flag without hostname|address which is necessary (i mean '-a (null)'). > > Does anyone know why this occurs? Hope this help. Check in /etc/rc.ocnf inetd_flags variable setup. With respect, Alexander V Zubchenko, E-Mail: stalker@hermes-comp.zp.ua System Administrator, WWW: http://www.hermes-comp.zp.ua/ Hermes-comp, Ukraine, Zaporizhzhya, Geroev Stalingrada 50 phone/fax: +380 612 64-19-72 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message