inetd daemon

[Ravi_8]

Hi all

In one of my running 11i, inetd daemon is not starting at booting time, each i need to start manually. Entry exist in /sbin/rc2.d as well in /sbin/init.d.

what could be the problem?

thanx in advance

[melvyn burnard]

what does your /etc/rc.log file say?
If you start it manually, does it stay running? and are you using the rc startuop script to get it running?
Has it always done this? or has it recently started to do this? If the second option, then what has changed recently??

[Tapas Jha]

Hi Ravi,

Check these out. First check /etc/rc.log file. There you will find the reason.

Check permission,ownership in /sbin/init.d/inetd (It should be permission 555 and ownership bin:bin)

Also check the link in /sbin/rc2.d directory. Check S is there or not like below:

lrwxr-xr-x 1 root sys 18 Jun 13 2001 S500inetd -> /sbin/ini
t.d/inetd
Rgds
Tapas

[Sanjay Kumar Suri]

1. Check /sbin/init.d/inetd script.
2. Check for old configuration files in /etc/rc.config.d/. Filenames containing [.,~#] are not sourced.

sks

[Lorenzo Facello]

Hi,
in /etc/rc.log you should have a strings like this:
Start Internet services daemon
Output from "/sbin/rc2.d/S500inetd start

Do you have a situation like this under /sbin/rc2.d/?
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root sys 18 Sep 5 2000 S500inetd -> /sbin/init.d/inetd

[Ravi_8]

Hi Melvyn

the error in /etc/rc.log is like this

Output from "/sbin/rc2.d/S500inetd start":
----------------------------
Usage: inetd [-l]
inetd [-c]
inetd [-k]
inetd [-s]----------
"/sbin/rc2.d/S500inetd start" FAILED

but when the m/c is up i issue /usr/sbin/inetd to start the service

[Bharat Katkar]

Ravi,
This is problem with the entry in inetd.conf file. What i suggest is why dont you delete the entry and rewrite it.
Then try rebooting.

[RAC_1]

something with /sbin/init.d/inetd.

cat -v /sbin/init.d/inetd

Anything here? special char etc?
cat -v /etc/rc.config.d/inetd

Anything here?

Anil

[Mark Grant]

Is it possible your $INETD_ARGS variable is a bit screwy. Have a look in /etc/rc.config.d/netdaemons

It should probably look like this

export INETD_ARGS=

[Bharat Katkar]

Sorry Ravi,
Bit confused. Ignore my earlier message.

What i suspect is may be your script S500inetd got some errors or unwanted characters in. See if there are any changes done or change in time stamp of the file.
See if you corrrect them.

[Ravi_8]

under /sbin/rc2.d
# ll|grep inetd
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 18 May 6 2003 S500inetd -> /sbin/ini
t.d/inetd
#
#
# pwd
/sbin/rc2.d
# cd ../init.d
# ll|grep inet
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 65536 Jul 27 2001 inetd

Mark:

export INETD_ARGS=
in my /etc/rc.config.d/netdaemons

[RAC_1]

ll /etc/rc.config.d/inet*

How many files? Any files such as .bak .org etc??

Anil

[Tapas Jha]

Hi,

If you check /sbin/init.d/inetd script, then you will find like below:
[ -x /usr/sbin/inetd ] && /usr/sbin/inetd $INETD_ARGS

The INETD_ARGS is in /etc/rc.config.d/netdaemons file. It should contain entry like export INETD_ARGS=

Thanx.
Tapas

[Mark Grant]

In that case, I'd start playing with the startup script to see exactly what you are getting.

in /sbin/init.d/inetd, around line 46 at the bit where it actually runs inetd, I'd enclose the command in suitable quotes, put an "echo" at the start and redirect it to a file. Also worth doing an "env" and redirecting that output too. Then at least you can see exactly what is happening.

[melvyn burnard]

I agree with the suggestions above, you have something set in the startup scrpts causing the error, as you are able to start it using the full pathname of the executable via the command line.
Start checking the rc.config file, and also the actual /sbin/init.d startup script

[Fred Ruffet]

It seems to me you have a particularly big /sbin/init.d/inetd. Isn't it the executable rather than the init script ? That would explain why he complains about start and ask for -l, -c...

I have this :
/ >: ll /sbin/init.d/inetd
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 1403 14 nov 2000 /sbin/init.d/inetd
/ >: ll /usr/sbin/inetd
-r-xr--r-- 1 bin bin 65536 27 juil 2001 /usr/sbin/inetd

Regards,

Fred

[Ravi_8]

Hi Mark/Melvyn

I comapred the /etc/rc.config and /sbin/init.d/inetd files with other m/c in which inetd start while booting, there is no difference.In fact i copied those files to this problematic m/c. I rebooted both the machines. still this m/c is not starting inetd whereas in other m/c it is starting

[RAC_1]

Do you have any files in /etc/rc.config.d/

with extensions like .save, .bak etc. There should only be config files for /sbin/init.d/ script.

Anil

[Fred Ruffet]

When you launch manually inetd, do you use /sbin/init.d/inetd ?

Excuse me to fix on my first idea, but could you provide results for :
ll /usr/sbin/inetd /sbin/init.d/inetd
file /usr/sbin/inetd
file /sbin/init.d/inetd

Fred

[Ravi_8]

after copying the inetd file from other m/c and after a reboot, i am not getting the previous error in /etc/rc.log but still the daemon is not starting. decided to log a call with HP. I will post the solution.

thanx everybody for your time