adding a service to xinetd

[Don Russell]

Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Don Russell wrote:
>   
>> Fedora 7
>>
>> I have a small telnet server listening on port 23, and want to run a
>> second one on port 8023 (rather arbitrary) which I'll use for testing
>> changes to the server app I wrote.
>>
>> The one on port 23 works properly but when I try to connect to the one
>> on port 8023, I get an error: connection refused.
>>
>> I tried this from the command line: telnet localhost 8023
>> and I get the 'connection refused' error.
>>
>> I added port 8023 using the"firewall settings"... but it still fails, I
>> also restarted xinetd to pick up the additional server...
>>
>> SELinux is in permissive mode.
>>
>> I've obviously missed something.... but what?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>     
> Did you check that the telnet daemon you are using will accept
> connections on a port other then 23? Depending on the daemon used,
> it may only accept port 23 connections unless it is in the debug mode.
>   

Yes, that's not a problem.. it just reads from stdin which xinetd takes 
care of

> You may also run into problems with /etc/services. From the
> xinetd.conf man page:
>
> port  determines the service port. If this attribute is specified
>       for a service listed in /etc/services, it must be equal to
>       the port number listed in that file.
>
> Mikkel
>   


I will check that.. I did cal the service "telnet", which is usually on 
port 23....

I've verified it's some form of xinetd error/problem because "netstat 
-na | grep 8023" comes up blank. :-)

Thanks for the tip...