RE: [SLUG] mail server.

From: Jeff Barriault (jeffbarr@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Sat Nov 17 2001 - 16:13:42 EST

Thanks a bunch Brian. RedHat 7.1 utilizes xinetd.conf as you suggested. No
wonder I couldn't get anything to work by modifying the inetd.conf file. LOL
Can you believe it is there in the directory too? Oh well. Live and learn.
Thanks again.

-----Original Message-----
From: slug@lists.nks.net [mailto:slug@lists.nks.net]On Behalf Of Brian
Coyle
Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2001 12:56 PM
To: slug@nks.net
Subject: Re: [SLUG] mail server.

Ronan Heffernan wrote:
>
> Jeff Barriault wrote:
>
> Thanks Ronan. So how do I find out if inetd is even loaded on my system,
and
> if not, where do I get it?
>
> Jeff-
> inetd should probably be running on all Linux systems. It is pretty
> standard. To make sure that it is running, type "ps ax | grep inetd".
> If you get back no lines, or only a line that contains "grep inetd",
> then it is NOT running, otherwise it is running.

Actually, inetd is being replaced by xinetd on many newer distros
(Mandrake 8.x) for example.

The key differences-

        - inetd uses /etc/inetd.conf for configuration
        - xinetd uses /etc/xinetd.conf to set global options
          and files under an 'includedir' (usually /etc/xinetd.d)
HTH! 

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