[H-GEN] Web page creation on windows, serving on linux

[Greg Black]

[ Humbug *General* list - semi-serious discussions about Humbug and     ]
[ Unix-related topics. Posts from non-subscribed addresses will vanish. ]

On 2003-07-18, Andrae Muys wrote:

> If you are using the older inetd there should be a line in 
> /etc/inetd.conf that looks something like
> 
> ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/in.ftpd in.ftpd
> 
> If it has a # in front of it, it is commented out and the service is 
> disabled.  Remove the # to enable, replace the # to disable.

On most systems, you then need to tell inetd that things have
changed.  On most modern Unix systems with a modern /bin/sh, the
following incantation, as root, will do it:

    kill -1 $(cat /var/run/inetd.pid)

I don't use xinetd[1], so I won't comment on that case.

And, of course, apart from discovering whether your system uses
inetd or the new-fangled thingy, you need to see if it's
actually running -- many modern systems don't even start it, for
a variety of quite sound reasons.

Cheers, Greg

[1] I don't use xinetd because I don't normally run any inetd
    services; and, when I do want one, I'm quite happy to use
    plain inetd since it's been there for millions of years and
    is quite easy to operate and adjust without any reference to
    manuals.

-- 
Greg Black <gjb at gbch.net> <http://www.gbch.net/gjb.html>
GPG signed mail preferred; further information in headers.

--
* This is list (humbug) general handled by majordomo at lists.humbug.org.au .
* Postings to this list are only accepted from subscribed addresses of
* lists 'general' or 'general-post'.  See http://www.humbug.org.au/