xinetd in FC5 not installed ?

[Mesu]

Hi
Sure thankful for this forum and everyone's willingness to assist others.

I hope this is simple, , we'll see.

I have vsftp working but have always set it to run under xinetd. I configged my files, put them in plkace and OOPS ! Seems there are xinetd directories, but no xinetd in the /etc/rc.d/init.d directory.

locate shows no file itself, just more directories.

The xinetd dir even has a number of start files in it. It just has no file to run.

I am guessing I need to get the RPM and install it? Or is it there lurking somewhere ?

Where do I start to activate xinetd ?

Thanks folks,

Mesu

[alyster]

I needed xinetd for a qmail installation.

I found that yum install xinetd did the trick (and of course starting it from the services menu).

rpm -qa xinetd
xinetd-2.3.13-6.2.1

[Mesu]

Hi,

I found a solution. Why is it they show up after I post ?

FC5 does not install xinetd.

I did this and it worked.

From a terminal :

yum install xinetd

Thanks for the poster "giulix" in another topic for the solution.

Mesu

[Mesu]

Hi

Thanks alyster

You are fast too.

Thanks,

Mesu

[Renich]

Command line solution
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Try (as root)
[root@myhost ~]# yum list xinetd

This will tell you if it is installed or not, if not, just yum install xinetd.

To activate xinetd just type
[root@myhost ~]# service xinetd start

To leave it permanently activated just
[root@myhost ~]# chkconfig --levels 345 xinetd on

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An alternative to login in as root is to use
[me@myhost ~]$ su -c 'yum list xinetd'

This will ask you for the root passwd. You can run it as a normal user. This last one is recommended, but didn't want to confuse you, so... Basically, it's the same, just have to enclose the root commands between ('), and after the "su -c" thingy... example: su -c 'rm -fr /'

DON'T TRY THAT LAST COMMAND OR IT WILL BLOW YOUR COMPUTER TO LINUX-HEAVEN!!!

[Mesu]

Thanks

problem solved

Mesu