[H-GEN] daytime server - How do I start it?

[Martin Pool]

(Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs Martin Pool <martin.pool at mincom.com>)

David Johnston wrote:
> 
> (Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs David Johnston <davej at ecn.net.au>)
> 
> Hello folks
> 
> How does one start the daytime server on a Linux box?

Daytime doesn't normally run as a server: it's provided by the inetd
superserver or it's equivalent on your installation.  

Check that there is an entry for daytime in /etc/inetd.conf and that it
is not commented out.  Your distribution may have a GUI tool to do
this.  Check inetd is running.  Do

  $ netstat -ta

to check that it's actually listening on the daytime port.  Check there
are no firewalling rules preventing clients from reaching the server.

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