Hi,
Once again I came to get rescued in a situation where one of my workstations has this ierd thing that "xinetd" won't start at reboot or shutdown. I have done the follwoing but no change in results.

chkconfig --list xinetd
xinetd 0ff 1ff 2n 3n 4n 5n 6ff

When first I did "service xinetd status" the system said "xinetd is stopped..."
then I did "service xinetd restart" and it failed to STOP it but started [ok].

But everytime I reboot the system I have to "service xinetd start" or "restart"

Can comeone tell me how I make xinetd to start at system reboot or boot?

Thanks in advance!

-harjit

i) which distro
ii) have a look at your logs
iii) seems like your system tries to start xinetd at a point where dependencies (e.g. networking has started) aren't met

I have Linux 2.4 kernel and I have checked logs for any dependent network service failure and nothing out of the abnormal. Everything seems alright except "xinetd". It only starts when I manually make it run...
-harjit