[SunHELP] How to Enable a Service

[Adrian Florea]

try a 'netstat -a | grep LISTEN' to see if someone is listening on 2401


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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