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06 mars, 2006

xinetd: unrecognized service

Have been trying to get my cvs server running on my Fedora server for quite a while now.

After googling for several hours I realized that my server wasn't running at all. The easiest way to verify this is to fire up an telnet session on a remote machine within the local network like this.
telnet server.ip.num.ber 2401
If the response is Can't connect to host... the service isn't running.

I went on reading how to start the cvs server on a linux system and it was very strait forward how to resolve this issue. Just edit the text file in /etc/xinet.d according to specifications and restart the xinet.d. My only problem was that I couldn't restart my xinet.d, in fact there wasn't any xinet.d installed on my system.

Googling this issue didn't resolve the issue but kicked me in the right direction. Install xinet.d!

OK! But where do I find this program? My installation hasn't installed it and according to Google a lot of Fedora users hasn't got it eighter.

I found it on redhats website, here:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/

After installing this it was downhill afterwards.

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