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Date:      Wed, 5 Jul 2000 18:13:03 -0500
From:      dbjames@bga.com
To:        cjclark@alum.mit.edu
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: inetd not running
Message-ID:  <39637AAF.16506.4BAA8C@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <20000705081425.A183@dialin-client.earthlink.net>
References:  <3962E08E.19612.13ED01@localhost>; from dbjames@bga.com on Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 07:15:26AM -0500

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Hi Crist,

	There was an error in the last line.  This caused inetd not to start 
and not to start any of the daemons in the inetd.conf file.

Thanks for you help,

Don James


On 5 Jul 2000, at 8:14, Crist J. Clark wrote:

> 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
> 
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