XInetd & /etc/services Issue

[Ben Stringer]

On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 05:37, Jim Robinson wrote:

> Now in /etc/services I create the port & protocol entries:-
> platypusd       5124/tcp                # Platypus user utility daemon
> 
> When I restart xinetd however I get this error:
> Oct 19 15:32:25 venus xinetd[7520]: Exiting...
> Oct 19 15:32:25 venus xinetd: xinetd shutdown succeeded
> Oct 19 15:32:25 venus xinetd: xinetd startup succeeded
> Oct 19 15:32:25 venus xinetd[13568]: service/protocol combination not in
> /etc/services: platypusd/tcp
> Oct 19 15:32:26 venus xinetd[13568]: xinetd Version 2.3.12 started with
> libwrap loadavg options compiled in.
> Oct 19 15:32:26 venus xinetd[13568]: Started working: 4 available services
> 
> I have tried every which way I can think of to try and get xinetd to read
> the correct lines from /etc/services but it just does not want to jive.  

Do you use NIS or other alternative name services?  

The /etc/nsswitch.conf be be used to specify an alternative lookup
service for the services mappings, however the default is to use
/etc/services

Otherwise, your configuration looks fine.

Cheers, Ben