Where is inetd.conf?

[Exotic-Scales.com]

According to my Samba book, in order to make my samba services start when
the system boots, I have to add some entries to:

/etc/inetd.conif

This file does not appear to be present in Red Hat 9.0. Any suggestions
where I might look, or alternatively, where I should put the startup
commands, will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Joe

[tim wunder]

Post by Exotic-Scales.com
According to my Samba book, in order to make my samba services start when
/etc/inetd.conif
This file does not appear to be present in Red Hat 9.0. Any suggestions
where I might look, or alternatively, where I should put the startup
commands, will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Joe

RHL 9 uses xinet.d, which does not use /etc/inetd.conf. Read the xinetd docs
included with redhat, or visit redhat's website to find the docs.

Some info you might also want to provide:
What book?
What version of samba?
Why use RHL 9? It is at end of life and is no longer supported.
Why not use the samba package that came with RHL?

HTH,
Tim

[Exotic-Scales.com]

Book: Sam's Teach yourself Samba in 24 Hours.

I thought 9.0 WAS the latest from Red Hat.

I'm using the same Samba that installed with the OS. It really did an
admirable job of configuring everything. It saw my Windows network
immediately. The only thing now is that I have to go into SWAT and manually
start those two services.

Thanks.

Joe

Post by tim wunder

Post by Exotic-Scales.com
According to my Samba book, in order to make my samba services start when
/etc/inetd.conif
This file does not appear to be present in Red Hat 9.0. Any suggestions
where I might look, or alternatively, where I should put the startup
commands, will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Joe

RHL 9 uses xinet.d, which does not use /etc/inetd.conf. Read the xinetd
docs included with redhat, or visit redhat's website to find the docs.
What book?
What version of samba?
Why use RHL 9? It is at end of life and is no longer supported.
Why not use the samba package that came with RHL?
HTH,
Tim

[tim wunder]

Post by Exotic-Scales.com
Book: Sam's Teach yourself Samba in 24 Hours.
I thought 9.0 WAS the latest from Red Hat.
I'm using the same Samba that installed with the OS. It really did an
admirable job of configuring everything. It saw my Windows network
immediately. The only thing now is that I have to go into SWAT and manually
start those two services.

If your using the redhat package, you should be able to start the service
thusly:
# service samba start
No need to use SWAT, although it should be able to...

I forget the GUI app to configure what services start and stop at which
runlevels, but take a look at 'ntsysv' for a command line utility for that.

redhat's latest version is RHEL 3, with RHEL 4 coming soon, IIRC.
If you don't want to pay for redhat, take a look at the Fedora Project.
Fedora Core 3 is the latest.

http://www.redhat.com/software/rhelorfedora/

HTH,
Tim

[Exotic-Scales.com]

Hmm, according to
http://www.linuxiso.org:

"Red Hat 9 is the last version of Red Hat Linux per se, and Red Hat will
stop supporting it soon. Instead they offer a commercial Linux distribution,
"Red Hat Enterprise Edition", and a free distribution, "The Fedora
Project"."

Is that what you were referring to?

I was reluctant to mess with the Fedora versions because I needed something
that was stable and would allow me to get up and running with a minimum of
fuss. I've been a windows developer for some time, but now am entering a
grad program in CS, and need to learn my way around a Linux/Unix system.
Obviously, I'm not about to wean 100% off of Windows for the immediate
future, so connectivity is important to me.

Thanks again,

Joe

Post by tim wunder

Post by Exotic-Scales.com
According to my Samba book, in order to make my samba services start when
/etc/inetd.conif
This file does not appear to be present in Red Hat 9.0. Any suggestions
where I might look, or alternatively, where I should put the startup
commands, will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Joe

RHL 9 uses xinet.d, which does not use /etc/inetd.conf. Read the xinetd
docs included with redhat, or visit redhat's website to find the docs.
What book?
What version of samba?
Why use RHL 9? It is at end of life and is no longer supported.
Why not use the samba package that came with RHL?
HTH,
Tim

[tim wunder]

Post by Exotic-Scales.com
Hmm, according to
"Red Hat 9 is the last version of Red Hat Linux per se, and Red Hat will
stop supporting it soon. Instead they offer a commercial Linux distribution,
"Red Hat Enterprise Edition", and a free distribution, "The Fedora
Project"."
Is that what you were referring to?
I was reluctant to mess with the Fedora versions because I needed something
that was stable and would allow me to get up and running with a minimum of
fuss. I've been a windows developer for some time, but now am entering a
grad program in CS, and need to learn my way around a Linux/Unix system.
Obviously, I'm not about to wean 100% off of Windows for the immediate
future, so connectivity is important to me.

<snip>

I've run Fedora Core 1 and 2 without any stability issues (that weren't my
own damn fault -- I experiment too much). Depending on who you ask, FC3 is
also a suitable server O/S. The instability allegedly comes in with the
desktop apps. YMMV.

Suse 9.2 is now available as a free download, and there are outfits that
re-package what is essentially RHEL as a free download.
Take a look at:
http://www.linuxmafia.com/faq/RedHat/rhel-forks.html

Regards,
Tim

[James Garvin]

Post by tim wunder

Post by Exotic-Scales.com
Hmm, according to
"Red Hat 9 is the last version of Red Hat Linux per se, and Red Hat
will stop supporting it soon. Instead they offer a commercial Linux
distribution, "Red Hat Enterprise Edition", and a free distribution,
"The Fedora Project"."
Is that what you were referring to?
I was reluctant to mess with the Fedora versions because I needed
something that was stable and would allow me to get up and running
with a minimum of fuss. I've been a windows developer for some time,
but now am entering a grad program in CS, and need to learn my way
around a Linux/Unix system. Obviously, I'm not about to wean 100% off
of Windows for the immediate future, so connectivity is important to me.

<snip>
I've run Fedora Core 1 and 2 without any stability issues (that weren't
my own damn fault -- I experiment too much). Depending on who you ask,
FC3 is also a suitable server O/S. The instability allegedly comes in
with the desktop apps. YMMV.
Suse 9.2 is now available as a free download, and there are outfits that
re-package what is essentially RHEL as a free download.
http://www.linuxmafia.com/faq/RedHat/rhel-forks.html

Yes, Suse is pretty decent. With Novell added to the mix it is kind of
hit or miss if you like it, but over all a good way of looking at things.

FC3 has issues with everything from Applications to Zebra (ok...I'm
exagerating) It does have issues (at least I've had issues) with:
Squid, Cheops, NFS shares, and some wonky issues with things like
sendmail and yumm.

[Bill Unruh]

Post by Exotic-Scales.com
Hmm, according to
"Red Hat 9 is the last version of Red Hat Linux per se, and Red Hat will
stop supporting it soon. Instead they offer a commercial Linux distribution,
"Red Hat Enterprise Edition", and a free distribution, "The Fedora
Project"."
Is that what you were referring to?
I was reluctant to mess with the Fedora versions because I needed something
that was stable and would allow me to get up and running with a minimum of
fuss. I've been a windows developer for some time, but now am entering a
grad program in CS, and need to learn my way around a Linux/Unix system.
Obviously, I'm not about to wean 100% off of Windows for the immediate
future, so connectivity is important to me.

GEt Mandrake instead.

[Dean Landry]

Post by Exotic-Scales.com
I was reluctant to mess with the Fedora versions because I needed something
that was stable and would allow me to get up and running with a minimum of
fuss. I've been a windows developer for some time, but now am entering a
grad program in CS, and need to learn my way around a Linux/Unix system.
Obviously, I'm not about to wean 100% off of Windows for the immediate
future, so connectivity is important to me.
Thanks again,

An Academic version of Redhat Enterprise is $50 US. Not a bad deal at
all. There's also a workstation version... but not sure if they support
Samba on WS.

Dean

[Gunnar]

Post by Exotic-Scales.com
According to my Samba book, in order to make my samba services start when
/etc/inetd.conif
This file does not appear to be present in Red Hat 9.0. Any suggestions
where I might look, or alternatively, where I should put the startup
commands, will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Joe

I believe you can enable this by using the Service Configuration program in
the GUI, or Redhat-config-services from a terminal window.
Just check the box for samba (smb) and save. Samba will start automatically,
at least it does for me.

Gunnar,

[Exotic-Scales.com]

Yup, I found the service configuration gui after a bit of poking around.

Thanks to all.

Joe

Post by Gunnar

Post by Exotic-Scales.com
According to my Samba book, in order to make my samba services start when
/etc/inetd.conif
This file does not appear to be present in Red Hat 9.0. Any suggestions
where I might look, or alternatively, where I should put the startup
commands, will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Joe

I believe you can enable this by using the Service Configuration program
in the GUI, or Redhat-config-services from a terminal window.
Just check the box for samba (smb) and save. Samba will start
automatically, at least it does for me.
Gunnar,

[Bill Unruh]

Post by Exotic-Scales.com
According to my Samba book, in order to make my samba services start when
/etc/inetd.conif
This file does not appear to be present in Red Hat 9.0. Any suggestions
where I might look, or alternatively, where I should put the startup
commands, will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

They use xinetd.d instead. It is a directory with a variety of scripts in
it. Your book is old.

[Brian Brunner]

Post by Exotic-Scales.com
According to my Samba book, in order to make my samba services start when
/etc/inetd.conif
This file does not appear to be present in Red Hat 9.0. Any suggestions
where I might look, or alternatively, where I should put the startup
commands, will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

1: It's Redhat 9, not 9.0 (if that matters to anybody here, take double
your normal meds).

2: RH9 is already past EOL, so is FC1. For security bugfixes for either
of these, see the fedora legacy project. They handle RH 7.3 as well. see
http://www.fedoralegacy.org/

3: FC3 (latest/supported release) is as stable as anything I've run on
my hardware. That doesn't say *everything* but I'm basically happy.

4: /etc/inetd.conf turned into a directory full of text files, one for
each facility managed by the xinetd daemon; see: http://www.xinetd.org/

[Exotic-Scales.com]

Thanks to everyone for the help.

One thing that I've noticed already is that this newsgroups seems WAY more
helpful than any of the MS groups. There the only answer you seem to get is
that it's not Microsoft's fault -- must be user error. ;^)

Joe

Post by Exotic-Scales.com
According to my Samba book, in order to make my samba services start when
/etc/inetd.conif
This file does not appear to be present in Red Hat 9.0. Any suggestions
where I might look, or alternatively, where I should put the startup
commands, will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Joe