how can start the service telnet in h9000

[Emilio Brusa]

Hi everyone
In my unix 11i how can i start the service of ftp and telnet.
they run ok but now i dont know what happend whit this.

thank

E.

[Kenneth Platz]

FTP and Telnet are both started via the inetd daemon. You should see the following 2 entries in your /etc/inetd.conf file:

ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/lbin/ftpd ftpd
telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/lbin/telnetd telnetd

If either of these are commented out or not present, then simply add them / uncomment then, and run an "inetd -c" to re-read the configuration file.

If you are looking for ftpd and/or telnetd via "ps -ef", they will only spawn if and when a connection request comes in.

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi E,

These are "on demand" services that only run when a request comes in.
IF their entries in /etc/inetd.conf are *not* commented out, then they should respond. But the security settings in /var/adm/inetd.sec or /etc/hosts.allow or hosts.deny (from the tcp-wrappers package) may disallow the connections.

If they're commented out, then uncomment them & run inetd -c

HTH,
Jeff

[Hoefnix]

These services are serviced by the inetd.
You can configure this in the /etc/inetd.conf

Regards,
Peter

[A. Clay Stephenson]

ftpd and telnetd are started by inetd. If they are working now but stopped for some reason before then I would bet that inetd stopped.

If you can ping this host from another host but nothing else works, it's a pretty sure bet that inetd died. It's not a bad idea to have a cron job that runs every 5 minutes or so and determines if inetd is running and if not then do an /sbin/init.d/inetd start.

I would also look for any inetd, ftpd, and telnetd patches and apply them.

[Emilio Brusa]

HI.
In the inetd.conf have the next
ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/lbin/ftpd ftpd -l

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



# inetd -c
inetd: There is no inetd running
#

how can i do ?

[Patrick Wallek · Accepted solution]

Try doing:

# /sbin/init.d/inetd start


You should also check /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log or dmesg to see if there are any error messages from inetd to help you determine the reason it is not running.

[Emilio Brusa]

Thanks everybody.

E.

[A. Clay Stephenson]

I suggest that you apply patches PHCO_29495 and PHNE_28328. I also suggest that you assume that at some point inetd is going to die and take steps to respawn it automatically. I add something similar to this as a matter of course to all my boxes. It very seldom actually runs but it beats getting up in the middle of the night to start inetd from the console.

Make a cron entry similar to this:
2,7,12,17,22,27,32,37,42,47,52,57 * * * * /root/bin/inetdchek.sh # make sure that inetd daemon is running

Here is inetdchek.sh.