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You are trying to start xinetd from user erin, which has no write 
permission on /var/lock/subsys (only read & execute). chmod 777 
/var/lock/subsys would probably help.

Tim

Eran Cohanim wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have been trying to setup xinetd in my windows xp pro computer under 
> cygwin with no luck
> (tried that in 3 different computers with the same result)
> (I must mention that I did it in the past with success - had to redo it 
> because of new installed OS
> and new installed cygwin)
> 
> now from some reason I cant and the error I get is:
> 
> $ /etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd start
> Starting xinetd:                                           [  OK  ]
> touch: cannot touch `/var/lock/subsys/xinetd': Permission denied
> 
> $ ls -la /var/lock/
> total 0
> drwxr-xr-x+ 3 SYSTEM root  0 Oct 12 20:05 .
> drwxrwx---+ 9 eran   Users 0 Oct 12 20:05 ..
> drwxr-xr-x+ 2 SYSTEM root  0 Oct 13 12:06 subsys
> 
> I installed all the neccesary packages for making it work
> 
> $ cygcheck -c | egrep "sysvinit|initscript|chkconfig|xinetd"
> chkconfig               1.2.24h-1          OK
> initscripts             0.9-1              OK
> sysvinit                2.84-4             OK
> xinetd                  2.3.9-1            OK
> 
> and after that run:
> 
> init-config (answered no at both questions - tried even with yes answer 
> on both questions)
> xinetd-config (answered yes on both questions)
> 
> now I see all the relevant port listening but if I try them is say the 
> below
> 
> $ netstat -aon | grep 23
>  TCP    0.0.0.0:23             0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING       3252
> 
> $ telnet localhost
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to 172.0.0.1.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> Connection closed by foreign host.
> 
> I've searched for that problem in your newsgroups and found the below 
> link (that was long time ago - see the date)
> 
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-08/msg01109.html
> 
> 
> please let me know how can i fix this
> thanks ahead
> 
> Eran Cohanim
> 
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