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Subject: Re: cygrunsrv xinetd problem
Date: 	Mon, 30 Aug 2004 17:56:26 +0200
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> > Then, I tried running:
> > $ cygrunsrv -S xinetd
> > but, the same story, error 1062. So, as you suggested, i made:
> > $ chmod a+rx *
> > in directories /bin and /usr/sbin. That didn't help, but now when I look
at
> > /var/log/xinetd.log, I don't see nothing, but a couple of lines:
> >   xinetd: msg_init failed: can't open log file
>
> Aha.
>
> > I can't see a problem with this from this point, here's the listing of
> > /var/log:
> > total 1477
> > drwxrwx---+   4 Administ Users           0 Aug 30 12:02 .
>            ^
> Here's your culprit.  You need a +x permission on the directory to be able
> to see files in that directory.  A "chmod o+x /var/log" should fix this.
> In fact, make sure every directory other than the user home directories is
> executable by others.

Done, and still the same error...

> > > Try opening a SYSTEM-owned shell (see the recent thread,
> > > <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-08/msg01132.html>), and run xinetd
> > > directly from the command line in that shell.  If it runs there,
compare
> > > the environment settings for the service with the environment settings
in
> > > that shell.  If it doesn't run there, the errors you get should be
helpful
> > > in diagnosing the problem and experimenting.
> >
> > Well, looks like xinetd runs well when running as SYSTEM directly, under
> > SYSTEM owned shell. No errors, and I was even able to login using telnet
> > service. So, I guess the problem is not here.
>
> Yes, the log file problem wouldn't show up in the SYSTEM-owned shell,
> unless you also tried to redirect std{out,err} to /var/log/xinetd.log
> (i.e., run "/usr/sbin/xinetd >>/var/log/xinetd.log 2>&1", which is
> essentially what cygrunsrv does).

I tried doing this, and xinetd runs with no problems.

Marcin Lewandowski
http://www.ii.uj.edu.pl/~lewandow



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