[NTLUG:Discuss] unable to stop xinetd

[MadHat]

At 01:21 PM 2/6/2001 -0600, you wrote:
>At 11:40 AM 2/6/2001 -0600, you wrote:
>>Every Time I try to stop xinetd it fails. Any Ideas on this??
>>
>>Thanks in advance,
>>
>>Joey
>>
>>
>># /sbin/service xinetd stop
>>Stopping xinetd:                                           [FAILED]
>
>Check your log file (usually /var/log/messages) for details.  The other 
>option is to try starting it by hand and see what errors appear.
>Once you get some detail, either search for that error message on google 
>or your favorite search engine, or post it here and someone can help point 
>you in the right direction.

Sorry, I misread stopping as starting...

make sure it is running by doing a 'ps ax | grep xinietd'  and looking in 
/var/run/ and see if there is an entry for xinetd.
make sure its pid listed in the /var/run/xinetd (should be the only thing 
in the file) matches what you find with the 'ps ax' as that is what the 
scripts should use to try killing it.  If it was started by hand or by 
something other than the script, that file may not be there or may have the 
wrong PID.

If this doesn't make sense, sorry, not sure what technical level you are...


>In the logs (you can just 'less /var/log/messages') search for xinitd and 
>see what that line says...
>
>This is the usual format for syslog messages
>
>Feb  6 00:53:34 HOST DAEMON: MESSAGE
>
>date and time, host, daemon, then the log message from that daemon.
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