Red Hat

I need to put the following line in inetd.conf:
stats stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/local/bin/mrtgsysinfo mrtgsysinfo
but my version of linux don't seem to allow that, ie there is no inetd.conf. How do i set that up in linux (red hat enterprise 3).

Go to the /etc/xinetd.d directory. You'll need to create a file (usually named after the program) and put your entries in there. Something like this (don't take my word for it, check out the xinetd man page):

Code:

service stats
{
        server = /usr/local/bin/mrtgsysinfo
        user = nobody
        socket_type = stream
        protocol = tcp
        wait = no
}

Carl

However when i try to do the following , which works on all my solaris boxes.....

telnet otlnx001 7260
Trying 172.16.32.241...

I get....

telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused

obviously i am missing something, both hosts.allow and hosts.deny are empty.

I also ran xinetd in debug mode. It gave me the following error:

06/10/24@11:37:08: ERROR: 366 {service_fill} Port not specified and can't find service:stats with getservbyname

That's why I said to man xinetd. I gave you a quick and dirty file that may have no relation to what you really need

Based on the site you probably grabbed this from (http://www.dmzs.com/~dmz/projects/mrtgsystemload.html) and your error message, you still need to update /etc/services.

It's not going to know what port to be listening on unless you add the info to /etc/services (or possibly in the xinetd file as a "port = 7260" line).

Carl

I already had the line in the services file. I also tried your ports= in the xinetd file but it did not change anything.

Could you please let me know which OS are you using? If you are using redhat or fedora. seems iptables are blocking the port.

Let me know


Prashant,