topic Re: Inetd services (ftp, rlogin,swat) are not working. in Operating System - HP-UX

Inetd services (ftp, rlogin,swat) are not working.

senthil_kumar_2 — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:46:28 GMT

Hi All

In HPUX 11.31, inetd services like ftp, rlogin and swat is not working but telnet is working.

My /etc/inetd.conf

telnet stream tcp6 nowait root /usr/lbin/telnetd telnetd

ftp stream tcp6 nowait root /usr/lbin/ftpd ftpd -l

login stream tcp6 nowait root /usr/lbin/rlogind rlogind
shell stream tcp6 nowait root /usr/lbin/remshd remshd
exec stream tcp6 nowait root /usr/lbin/rexecd rexecd

swat stream tcp nowait.400 root /opt/samba/bin/swat swat

I am not use telnet but not able to use others.

I restarted inetd like below

step1:

#/sbin/init.d/inetd stop
#/sbin/init.d/inetd start

step2:

#inetd -c

even after all this, i am not able to use ftp, rlogin and swat.

How to solve this.

Re: Inetd services (ftp, rlogin,swat) are not working.

Patrick Wallek — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:55:40 GMT

What exactly is happening? What happens when you try to ftp to this server? What error(s) do you get?

Actual errors that occur would be VERY HELPFUL in trying to troubleshoot this.

Re: Inetd services (ftp, rlogin,swat) are not working.

SUDHAKAR_18 — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:05:24 GMT

can you check /etc/services.

is bastille run over system ?

Re: Inetd services (ftp, rlogin,swat) are not working.

Season Chu — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:11:02 GMT

Pls paste the following errers information when you try to use the ftp and rlogin.

Like what Patrick said,the following errors information is very important for you.

Re: Inetd services (ftp, rlogin,swat) are not working.

senthil_kumar_2 — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:25:13 GMT

For rlogin:

Network error connection refused.

For ftp:

No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it.
Connection failed.

Re: Inetd services (ftp, rlogin,swat) are not working.

SUDHAKAR_18 — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:31:01 GMT

Will you be able to ping from PC to server & server to PC ?

can you check for default route entries?

Re: Inetd services (ftp, rlogin,swat) are not working.

senthil_kumar_2 — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:48:13 GMT

Hi SUDHAKAR

Yes you are correct.

Re: Inetd services (ftp, rlogin,swat) are not working.

Steven Schweda — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:27:58 GMT

As usual, showing actual commands with their
actual output can be more helpful than vague
descriptions ("i am not able to use") and
interpretations.

Is the HP-UX system the server here? What is
the client system? How much network
equipment lies between the client and the
server?

Can you do, say, FTP from the HP-UX system to
itself? rlogin?

Re: Inetd services (ftp, rlogin,swat) are not working.

F Verschuren — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:37:16 GMT

do you have tcp6 running? if not please remove this wordt form the configuration?
if this works is depening on you os type
please post a uname -r whit your questions that can help a lot in the correct and quick solutions.

Re: Inetd services (ftp, rlogin,swat) are not working.

Viveki — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:47:50 GMT

One cause for display of this generic error message could be due to the absence of an entry for login in /etc/inetd.conf on the remote system. This entry may have been removed or commented out to prevent non-secure access

Re: Inetd services (ftp, rlogin,swat) are not working.

F Verschuren — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:15:03 GMT

change the lines in:
ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/lbin/ftpd ftpd -l -v

login stream tcp nowait root /usr/lbin/rlogind rlogind
shell stream tcp nowait root /usr/lbin/remshd remshd
exec stream tcp nowait root /usr/lbin/rexecd rexecd

run inet -c
check if inetd is running
ps telnet can be working du to a telnetd deamon outside inetd.
check your syslog.conf on erors from the inetd -c

Re: Inetd services (ftp, rlogin,swat) are not working.

senthil_kumar_2 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:48:57 GMT

It has been resolved, hence i am closing this.

Re: Inetd services (ftp, rlogin,swat) are not working.

Steven Schweda — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:04:40 GMT

> It has been resolved, hence i am closing
> this.

When someone does a Forum search and finds
this thread, what will he learn from that?