need help cant start xinetd

[netcomander]

hi all,

however I managed to kill my xinetd prozess.
Then I tried to invoke the xinetd by
bash] /sbin/service xinetd start
I get an [ok], but I cant find the prozess.
when ever I type
bash] /sbin/service xinetd restart
I get somethin like
stop xinetd [failed]
start xinetd [ok]

how can I manage xinetd to run

thanks in advance
greetings markus

 

[RhythmAce]

The problem might not be with xinetd. It seems to be starting ok but its having problems shutting down. My guess is that one of the servers has a runaway child process. If you have logging enabled you might want to check there.

 

[ifincham]

Hi,



To see if it's listening try this :



/usr/sbin/lsof -i TCP | grep xinetd



(must be done as root)



You should see all the TCP ports that xinetd is listening on.



Hope this helps

 

[netcomander]

Hi ifincham,
I did how you told me, and what happens is this

[bash sbin]# lsof -i TCP|grep xinetd <enter>
[bash sbin]#

thanks so far

greetings markus

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

Well, it certainly looks as if your xinetd daemon is not active at all. Did you see if anything was in the /var/log/messages file ? for example try a xinetd restart then do :

tail /var/log/messages

If there's nothing there, you might want to try verifying the rpm to see if any files are missing :

rpm -V xinetd

You will most-likely get some output saying that timestamps are different or whatever but make sure there is nothing missing. The rpm verification output is explained here -->

http://www.redhat.com/docs/books/max-rpm/max-rpm-html/s1-rpm-verify-output.html

.

If in doubt, there is no harm in re-installing xinetd with the --replacepkgs option, i.e.:

rpm -Uvh --replacepkgs xinetd*.rpm

(assumes you are in the directory where the xinetd rpm file is - CD or whatever)

You could see if there are any xinetd files left lying around in /var/run (e.g. pid file). Try deleteing thiose.

Other than that I'd guess that there is a problem with one of the services. On redhat, the various config files are located in the directory /etc/xinetd.d and the main config file just includes the whole subdirectory. You can try turning off all your xinetd services except something like finger and see if it works....

/sbin/chkconfig --list

The bottom part of the response from the above command shows the xinetd controlled services - i.e. where it just says off or on. (The ones above with the numbers 1 to 6 are sysv controlled processes.) To turn-off services just do :

/sbin/chkconfig telnet off

(etc.)

Experiment with only enabling one or two services and see if xinetd then starts - if so there may be a corruption in one of the config files.

Hope this helps