Re: pserver never starts running

[david]

> Hello all,
> I am having trouble with my cvs remote login.  It appears that my 
> pserver doesn't start running.
>
Under what circumstances?
 
> My OS is Redhat 9.0
> 
> It is running xinetd
> 
> My /etc/xinetd.d/cvspserver file looks like this
> 
> # default: off
> # description: An internal xinetd service, listing active services.
> service services
> {
>     disable    = no
>     id        = cvspserver
>     env        = HOME=/home/cvs
>     port        = 2401
>     socket_type    = stream
>     protocol    = tcp
>     wait        = no
>     user        = root
>     passenv        =
>     server        = /usr/bin/cvs
>     server-args    = --allow-root=/var/lib/cvsroot pserver
> }
> 
> When I type:
> telnet [host] 2401 from my windoze machine is says: "Connection to 
> [host]...Could not open a connection to host on port 2401 : Connect 
> failed.  ([host] is either jake or 192.168.0.155)
>
Have you rebooted or anything since putting this in cvspserver?
Or typed
kill -SIGUSR2 xinetd
as root, to get xinetd to reread its configuration files?

If you've done either of these, then I don't know what could be
going on.
 
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