X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <453E6100.2090906@cygwin.com> Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 14:52:48 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060916 Fedora/1.5.0.7-1.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5.0.7 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Is "inetd" usable with cygwin? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Dave Down wrote: > I'm a new cygwin user but I'm a long term windows user and have worked with > unix/linux in the past. I can use the cygwin network clients, but I'm > confused about the server daemons. On regular linux systems, "inetd" is > started automatically, but it isn't with cygwin . I looked for information > about this in the user manual, but didn't see it mentioned. > > I then looked around in files and found in "inetd.conf" that the command > "net start inetd" should start it, but when I enter the command, I get the > error "The service name is invalid." from the windows net utility and I > didn't find documentation for installing it as a service. > > So, is "inetd" not usable with cygwin or is there somewhere that I can read > about how to set it up? Does it conflict with windows network services? I > can start the windows telnet server and log in from another computer that > way and the Xwindows features of cygwin are working fine, so I'd expect the > others like "ftpd" should be usable too. > > I'll continue to dig around trying to find answers, but if someone would > spend a few minutes to save me many more hours of frustration, I'd > appreciate it... Read '/usr/share/doc/Cygwin/inetutils-1.3.2.README' and then use '/usr/bin/iu-config' to configure it. Do the first thing first and the second thing second to avoid tripping and falling. Also, don't run with scissors! ;-) -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/