I did not have the package inetd-0.16-4 installed by default. So, I went
ahead and installed it. Now I see inet.conf file under /etc.
But, now when I ftp, following is the output; better than nothing before.
Connected to 192.168.0.3
421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection.
Sundar
On Wed, 23 Feb 1994 22:26:14 +0700,
tjones@inficad.com wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, you wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I created the file /etc/inetd.conf with just 2 following lines
> > ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.ftpd -l -a
> > telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.telnetd
> >
> > and when I gave killall -HUP inetd, the system output was
> > inetd: no process killed
> >
> > So, I restarted the system, just in case.
> >
> > It still doesn't work.
> > Sundar
> >
> >
> >
>
> Couple of things.
>
> 1. make sure you have the inetd package installed. Should be
inetd-0.16-4 if
> this is a fresh install. Command is: rpm -q inetd If you don't, install
it
> from the distribution CD that you hopefully have, or download and install
> it.
>
> 2. When sending a signal to a process, it usually done by the process
number,
> not its name. if you run ps -ef | grep init (for example), you will see
that
> init's process ID number is 1 and it's parent process is 0. If you grep
for
> inetd, you'll get its prcoess ID (PID) and you can then send the signal
with
> the command kill -1 PID (where PID is the number displayed as a result of
the
> ps command). If you want to be really tricky, you could just send the
restart
> comand without knowing the PID with the following command:
>
> ps -ef | grep inetd | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill -1
>
> Works for lots of other processes, just drop thier name in in place of
inetd.
>
> TJ
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