Extended Internet Services daemon, which starts internet protocols such as FTP or telnet as needed
Questions tagged [xinetd]
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prevent output from script in xinetd service
I have a bash script that starts Xvnc after doing some other processing, and it's launched from a xinetd service. However the script indirectly outputs some text to stdout and stderr, which gets sent back to the connecting client.
Is there some way…

Jonathan.
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puppet notify xinetd doesn't reload xinetd service
I’m trying to install check_mk agent with the standard check_mk xinetd config file via puppet on a Debian 7 server.
Check_mk installs without a problem but I've got an issue with the xinetd config.
When I change the port in the source config file on…

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MySQL login-path issues with clustercheck script used in xinetd
default: on
# description: mysqlchk
service mysqlchk
{
# this is a config for xinetd, place it in /etc/xinetd.d/
disable = no
flags = REUSE
socket_type = stream
type = UNLISTED
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Sanjay
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TCP server that serves unix time
Is there a way through bash/nc/xinetd/nginx clever trickery to run a TCP server that only output Unix time then disconnect?
A client connects to the TCP server, and server outputs the unix time in string form, e.g. "1456860938", then server…

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Raspbmc Dropbear not using provided cmdline arguments
I have a raspbmc running on my rPi. Already configured to use ssh keys but I want to disable the password login option entirely.
I have added the -s option in the /etc/default/dropbear:
# any additional arguments for Dropbear
DROPBEAR_EXTRA_ARGS=…

Devon
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Running script over SSH works. But over xinetd or after switching user it wont work
im running a 7Days to Die server.
Usually i connect via ssh with user "linux" and run the command:
/home/linux/start
This works, server is running.
But when i switch user to root (su root) and run:
sudo -u linux /home/linux/start
or
sudo -u linux…

PaddyB
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xrdp with sesman for port redirection
I am using xrdp in Centos.
1) in /etc/xrdp/xrdp.ini I set the port to -1
[xrdp1]
name=sesman-Xvnc
lib=libvnc.so
username=ask
password=ask
ip=127.0.0.1
port=-1
This is ok. I can login with my user and password.
1) in /etc/xrdp/sesman.ini I want to…

marcos barcelona
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How to get a core dump from a service started by xinetd on Ubuntu Precise
I want to debug a service which fails with SIGPIPE. So I installed a a signal handler for SIGPIPE and called abort() in it in order to get a core dump.
But I get none. I've set sysctl -w kernel.core_pattern=/tmp/core to get the core into tmp and I…

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Does xinetd preserve data integrity?
Background info:
I have a page written in php that sends data to another server, like so:
$url = "example=data&to=show&the=format&im=using";
$client = stream_socket_client("", $errno, $errorMessage);
fwrite($client, $url .…

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tftp logging to a separate file
I would like to log all TFTP server logging messages (and only those) to a separate log file. I'm using xinetd (extended Internet daemon) in Linux to provide a TFTP server. I tried adding
log_type = SYSLOG local1
to…

Alan Evangelista
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How does inetd know which process to send incoming data to?
I'm trying to replace a inetd/xinetd service by a standalone one.
What is the simplest I can do this? Is there some standard code to get started?

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OSX and CVSROOT
I am using on a computer OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.5 server. I want to configure CVS on it so that other computers can use that repository later.
Can someone explain me ho to configure and start xinetd (preferably) or inetd. The directory…

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xinetd - unable to write to a file
Running CentOS. xinetd.d/clhtest entry is as follows:
service clhtest
{
disable = no
port = 8020
socket_type = stream
protocol = tcp
wait …

Chap
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Running shell script with xinetd in single instance mode
I would like to give a user some feedback when he is trying to execute a remote script that is started by xinetd and runs as single instance.
Via an UDP or TCP socket, the user sends some text to the port where xinetd is listening. If the script is…

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what is the difference nginx and xinetd?
What is the difference between nginx and xinetd ?
When should I prefer nginx, and when should I prefer xinetd?
Maybe I'm wrong, but I got the impressions they are both proxies.
I got that nginx does a lot more, but - is there anything xinetd does…

Radagast the Brown
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