Re: [SLUG] trn? leafnode? xinetd?

From: Eben King (eben01@verizon.net)
Date: Wed Oct 22 2008 - 09:24:21 EDT


On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Eben King wrote:

> I just solved (I think) an IDE-bus problem (jumper on the slave drive came
> off, so there were intermittently two masters on that bus), so it's entirely
> possible some files got damaged.
>
> trn won't start. I look in the logs, and xinetd is doing something weird:
>
> ,--
> | Oct 22 03:20:32 pc xinetd[17951]: Reading included configuration file:
> /etc/xinetd.d/chargen [file=/etc/xinetd.conf] [line=14]
> | Oct 22 03:20:32 pc xinetd[17951]: Reading included configuration file:
> /etc/xinetd.d/daytime [file=/etc/xinetd.d/daytime] [line=28]
> | Oct 22 03:20:32 pc xinetd[17951]: Reading included configuration file:
> /etc/xinetd.d/discard [file=/etc/xinetd.d/discard] [line=26]
> | Oct 22 03:20:32 pc xinetd[17951]: Reading included configuration file:
> /etc/xinetd.d/echo [file=/etc/xinetd.d/echo] [line=25]
> | Oct 22 03:20:32 pc xinetd[17951]: Reading included configuration file:
> /etc/xinetd.d/leafnode [file=/etc/xinetd.d/leafnode] [line=26]
> | Oct 22 03:20:32 pc xinetd[17951]: Reading included configuration file:
> /etc/xinetd.d/time [file=/etc/xinetd.d/time] [line=10]
> | Oct 22 03:20:32 pc xinetd[17951]: removing chargen
> | Oct 22 03:20:32 pc xinetd[17951]: removing chargen
> | Oct 22 03:20:32 pc xinetd[17951]: removing daytime
> | Oct 22 03:20:32 pc xinetd[17951]: removing daytime
> | Oct 22 03:20:32 pc xinetd[17951]: removing discard
> | Oct 22 03:20:32 pc xinetd[17951]: removing discard
> | Oct 22 03:20:32 pc xinetd[17951]: removing echo
> | Oct 22 03:20:32 pc xinetd[17951]: removing echo
> | Oct 22 03:20:32 pc xinetd[17951]: removing time
> | Oct 22 03:20:32 pc xinetd[17951]: removing time
> | Oct 22 03:20:32 pc xinetd[17951]: xinetd Version 2.3.14 started with
> libwrap loadavg options compiled in.
> | Oct 22 03:20:32 pc xinetd[17951]: Started working: 1 available service
> '--

That's still odd, but the most critical (to me) problem has been solved --
the computer was assigned a different address by DHCP, so "news" no longer
pointed to this machine. I have _got_ to whip that router into shape. How
can I assign names to dynamically-generated addresses?

-- 
-eben    QebWenE01R@vTerYizUonI.nOetP    royalty.mine.nu:81
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