[SunHELP] How to Enable a Service

[Adrian Florea]

I  mean /etc/services ....


Adrian Florea wrote:
> Did you associated the cvspserver with a port in /etc/service ?
> 
> if not, do it.
> 
> Munish Bajaj wrote:
> 
>> Hi Listers
>>  
>> I'm stuck with a very basic and elementary problem. please ignore my 
>> lack of
>> knowledge as i'm a Oracle DBA
>>  
>> I'm trying to create a service for cvs pserver. I had created a cvs
>> repository. It is working well if i access it via local method, but 
>> i'm not
>> able to access the same via pserver.
>>  
>> I had done the following entries in /etc/services
>>  
>> cvspserver      2401/tcp                        # CVS Server Port
>>
>> and in /etc/inetd.conf
>>  
>> cvspserver      stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/bin/cvs     cvs -f
>> --allow-root=/u02/cvsroot pserver
>>  
>> and restarted the inetd daemon
>>  
>> pkill -HUP inetd
>>  
>> But am not able to connect via cvs client to this server
>>  
>> I tried a basic test ti check if the service was working. I made the
>> following entries in /etc/inetd.conf
>>  
>> cvspserver      stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/bin/echo   echo 
>> hello
>>
>> now i tried to connect with telnet servername 2401. My Guess was that i
>> should get the Hello message echoed, but i got the error
>>  
>> telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
>>  
>> Please tell me how i can create this service. My platform is Solaris 8
>> details as follows :
>>  
>> SunOS server 5.8 Generic_108528-17 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-250
>>  
>> Thanks and Best Regards to all
>>  
>> Munish Bajaj
>>
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Adrian FLOREA
Departament MRC/OSM
ALCATEL NSR Timisoara, ROMANIA
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