Can't restart daemon?

[HKNinja]

I tried to restart xinetd on my Mandrake by typing
"./ixnetd restart" and got the following message...

[root@mail init.d]# ./xinetd restart
Usage: xinetd [-d] [-f config_file] [-filelog filename] [-syslog facility] [-reuse] [-limit proc_limit] [-loop loop_rate] [-pidfile filaneme] [-logprocs imit][-shutdownprocs limit] [-cc interval]

When I use the same command on my Red Hat 9, my inetd will restart. What's wrong?! Please help.

ps: I ran it under ./etc/init.d/

 

[wizzardkid]

this try command... from root

/etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd retart

 

[clonny2]

The startup program is a script that must be different on Mandrake and RedHat. In the RedHat startscript there is a case statement and restart is one of the arguments accepted. This must not be the same in Mandrake.

In the Mandrake script, look for a section like this

case i in $options
start | xxxx ;;
stop | xxxxx ;;
* | xxxxx ;;

just add restart
restart | stop; start ;;


From restart you call stop function ; then the start function. That is all you need to do.

>---------------------------------------Lawrence Feldman
SR. QA. Engineer SNAP Appliance
lfeldman@snapappliance.com

 

[HKNinja]

Wizzardkid,

Thanks for the reply, but again, same message.

Clonny2,

I remember I saw something like that, but don't remember which file it was. But I did see someone runs "xinetd restart" on this machine and it worked perfectly. :-/

 

[ianicr]

What version of Mandrake are you running? On my 9.1 box if i (as root) do:
/etc/init.d/xinetd restart
it works fine.
Sounds like its trying to run the daemon executable rather than the init script. Could be a pathing problem.