cannot restart services

[mwagiru]

How can services be restart in HP-UX 11i ?
I tried /etc/services restart
I got "execute permission denied"

[Peter Godron]

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Which service do you want to restart ?
The answer to this will determine the detailed answer.

[Ivan Krastev]

use:

/sbin/init.d/servicename stop
/sbin/init.d/servicename start


regards,
ivan

[Robert-Jan Goossens_1]

Hi,

To re-read the inet configuration files use;

# inetd -c

Regards,
Robert-Jan

[Reshma Malusare]

Hi mwagiru,
To start particular service syntax is
/sbin/init.d/service stop
/sbin/init.d/service start

e.g to start inetd daemon
/sbin/init.d/inetd start

/etc/services --> contains port numbers for particular services

Regards
Reshma

[mwagiru]

I commented out several services in /etc/inetd.conf like telnet.
However, I can still telnet to the HP-UX box.

[melvyn burnard]

the syntax you tried is incorrect.
If you have made a chaneg to the inetd.conf file, you have to tell inetd to re-read the file :
inetd -c

Failing that, reboot your server

[mwagiru]

Thanks Robert.inetd -c did it !!

[mwagiru]

thanks all
Problem solved

[melvyn burnard]

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[Ralph Grothe]

As Robert-Jan wrote,
you need to signal inetd of any changes you made in /etc/inetd.conf
This can either be done by

# /usr/sbin/inetd -c

or

# kill -1 $(UNIX95= ps -o pid= -C inetd)



If you get a permission denied message when you try to run an init script you may not have invoked it as root?
Also there could other issues which can be caused by what is happening in the script.
Maybe there is an su to another uid, or a service forks and changes ownership of the child who then may encounter some problem accessing a device or file that would require elevated privileges.
In the end you would have to look into the affected init script and find out where things go awry.
Also note that your init script may not have a case match for a "restart" argument.
Then you would have to first stop and then start.