From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 5 8:16:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from eagle.prod.itd.earthlink.net (eagle.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.120.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C6D437B806 for ; Wed, 5 Jul 2000 08:16:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@earthlink.net) Received: from dialin-client.earthlink.net (pool0678.cvx20-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net [209.179.252.168]) by eagle.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3-EL_1_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA28015; Wed, 5 Jul 2000 08:16:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by dialin-client.earthlink.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA00358; Wed, 5 Jul 2000 08:14:27 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 08:14:25 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: dbjames@bga.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: inetd not running Message-ID: <20000705081425.A183@dialin-client.earthlink.net> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <39627B55.21040.31EEFA6@localhost>; <20000704232801.D325@dialin-client.earthlink.net> <3962E08E.19612.13ED01@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <3962E08E.19612.13ED01@localhost>; from dbjames@bga.com on Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 07:15:26AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 07:15:26AM -0500, dbjames@bga.com wrote: > On 4 Jul 2000, at 23:28, Crist J. Clark wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 12:03:33AM -0500, dbjames@bga.com wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I am running FreeBSD 4.0. I noticed that inetd is not > > > running? > > > > > > In my /etc/defaults/rc.conf file, inetd_enable="YES" and > > > inetd_flags="wW" > > > > > > Any suggestions as to why inetd is not running? > > > > I assume that is a typo, > > > > inetd_flags="-wW" # Optional flags to inetd > Hi Crist, > > Yes, I get an error message when the computer boots: > "starting standard daemons: inetd cronJul 5 07:04:14 don > inetd[149]: /etc/inetd.conf: syntax error" Ah, well, in that case I would probably be led to believe that inetd is not starting because there is a syntax error in /etc/inetd.conf. Have you made some changes to /etc/inetd.conf? -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message