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xinetd service: OK to change user? (cvs pserver)

Legacy Source Control: CVS under xinetd We have a team that uses legacy source control: cvs. We run cvs pserver under xinetd (config file below). Audit Flag A security audit raised a flag: "make sure the cvs server does not run under…
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Setting up the correct FTP user permissions

To possibly fix an error, I was told to set the correct permissions to a user: Make sure that ftp user of your repository has permissions for: change directory (cd) list directory (ls) create directory (mkdir) remove directory (rmdir) upload file…
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Linux/RHEL Server Down with "xinetd" Alerts?

Suddenly one of my RHEL 6 Server [VM] (serving Apache on it also) went down and when i rebooted it, i saw several of following /var/log/messages as latest before it went down: May 4 08:16:37 localhost xinetd[1928]: START: nrpe pid=19307…
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Curl Failure when receiving data from peer using Percona XtraDB Cluster Check

I'm having a similar issue to the one mentioned here: xinetd 'connection reset by peer' I've setup percona-clustercheck (which comes with Percona's XtraDB Cluster packages) with xinetd and I'm getting an error when trying to curl clustercheck…
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Forward public port to localhost

I have a process running on my Ubuntu 12.04 server that insists on binding to a public IP address. I only want it accessible from localhost, and NOT the outside world. I've been trying to work out a way to forward 1.2.3.4:8888 to 127.0.0.1:8888. I…
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Git daemon doesn't work properly when run from xinetd

I'm trying to set up a git public repository for my team. I have installed Git on a linux box (RedHat 5.6). As a first step, i'm trying to configure Git to use the git protocol, by setting it up to run through xinetd. Here's the contents of…
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vsftpd over xinetd: connection refused

I've been banging my head against this for hours and I'm stumped. I am setting up a Gentoo Linux box with vsftpd. I can get it to work as a standalone daemon, but not with xinetd. When I try to connect from another machine, its FTP client…
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Auto Start of Proftpd on OpenSuse Linux

I'm trying to activate the Ftpservice on my Root Server, I have OpenSuse installed, and I'm using the xinetd method. I added this to my xineted.conf: service ftp { flags = REUSE socket_type = stream protocol …
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Cannot get xinetd to start on a RHEL server

When I try to execute /etc/init.d/xinetd start I get the following error: Starting xinetd: /bin/bash: /usr/sbin/xinetd: cannot execute binary file [FAILED] Also, if I check the…
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running sock4 (ssh -D) through xinetd

I need to be able to run a socks4 server (the best through ssh -D) I can't put together a config file for xinetd, can anyone give me a hand? Thanks!
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Xinetd , vncserver memory requirement

I am installing the following on a low memory system: vnc4server xinetd xterm openbox obconf I will only occasionally be logging into the vncs for some admin work. My question is: 1) Does xinetd take memory / cpu even when vncserver is not…
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SSH Connections Refused When Routing Through Xinetd

I'm trying to route SSH connections from port 22 on the SSH machine to port 2222 on the xinetd machine, I get a connection refused error every time I try to connect through port 2222 on the xinetd machine. The SSH machine is running CentOS 5.4 and…
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xinet vs iptables for port forwarding performance

I have a requirement to run a Java based web server on port 80. The options are: Web proxy (apache, nginx, haproxy etc.) xinet iptables setuid The baseline would be running the app using setuid but I'd prefer not to for security reasons. Apache is…
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svnserve vs xinetd + svnserve

What would be the best solution considering, scalability/load and security, svnserve + xinetd or standalone svnserver? Thank you!
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Xinetd listen to IP Address not assigned to an interface

Is it somehow possible to use Xinetd (or any other solution) to listen to incoming Packets for an IP Adress which is not assigned to an interface, and start up a daemon (like Xinetd) does? So my Linux Machine is the default GW, all Packets are sent…
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