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Red hat Enterprise ES3 v4. And there is no iptables firewalls turned on.

Based on your debug error, the system did get some sort of tickle or you wouldn't have received an error. So it appears to be running somehow. I set up my Mandrake box as it said in the instructions I posted and created a stat file but I wasn't able to get any response from my linux box. I do have iptables running so I might be blocked (yes, even locally). I didn't want to whack my iptables to try this out though. Still, from the error it sounds like it can't find the port. Are you sure you have it in your /etc/services file?

Carl

Yea, a quick google search on the debug error you posted indicated the entry is missing from /etc/services. You might double check just to make sure.

Carl

hello,

after you modified the inetd.conf
do inetdconv.

see the man.

cheers

There is only and xinetd, no inetd in this version. it works on some of my linux es boxes and not on others.

hello,

newer linux use inetdconv to convert the inetd.conf file so it can be use by xinetd.
try to look the command
inetdconv - you should have it inside the system.

cheers.

It turns out that for some reason solaris and Linux read my NIS differently. On my solaris machines if i edited the local serivces file it worked but on my linux machines it would not read the local file but the NIS file. So i just modified my NIS version of services and published and then it started working.

thanks to all that helped