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Date: Sun, 4 May 2003 18:40:36 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: "Bill C. Riemers" <cygwin AT docbill DOT net>
cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: xinetd help
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On Sun, 4 May 2003, Bill C. Riemers wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I've been trying to get xinetd to work under Windows XP, but so far have
> been unsuccessfull.  The daemons starts and runs successfully, but all
> connections to it's services fails.
>
> For example:
>     telnet localhost
> just results in a connection that closes right away.
>
> I tried running xinetd in debug mode.  It just keeps complaining "setuid"
> failed, or goes into endless loops of connections closing and reopening,
> depending on which service I try testing.
>                                        Bill

Is the uid it's trying to set equal to 65535, as in
<http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-05/msg00167.html>?
If so, check your /etc/passwd to make sure it's up to date (with respect to
domain users, most likely).  Otherwise, please post the *exact* error
message you're getting.
	Igor
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