Just to clear this up since this is an old message, I got recfind working again thanks to some pointers from list members. Mainly, I believe the culprit was the nsswitch.conf. Our NIS+ server had moved while this server was running and after we rebooted the server everything went haywire. Works ok now. Alan On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Alan Rubin wrote: > IT NOW DOESN'T WORK. > > 2nd to last line in the first paragraph is stated incorrectly. Sorry. > > Alan > > On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Alan Rubin wrote: > > > recfind is an old proprietary records management program/database. Users can > > log into the system through a Windows app. recfind involves some daemons that > > are kicked off out of inetd. the system that this was running from was > > working fine until we needed to reboot the server yesterday to make more room > > on the disks. nothing has changed in the configuration of the server, that we > > know about, for ages and yet it now works. inetd doesn't seem to like the > > line in inetd.conf referring to recfind. > > > > from inetd.conf: > > recfind stream tcp nowait root /recfind/tcpio/tcpio tcpio > > > > from /etc/services: > > recfind 1994/tcp # recfind tcp/io engine > > > > > > error: > > > > helios# ps -ef|grep inetd > > root 147 1 0 11:58:36 ? 0:00 /usr/sbin/inetd -s > > root 391 376 0 12:28:40 pts/1 0:00 grep inetd > > helios# kill -HUP 147 > > helios# tail /var/adm/daemon* > > [snip] > > Jul 12 12:28:45 helios inetd[147]: recfind/tcp: unknown service > > ... > > > > Alan > > > > _________________ > > *Alan Rubin* > > Sun/Unix/Networking/Web Writing > > Email:rubin@frell.org > > _______________________________________________ > > sunmanagers mailing list > > sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org > > http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers > > > > _________________ > *Alan Rubin* > Sun/Unix/Networking/Web Writing > Email:rubin@frell.org > _______________________________________________ > sunmanagers mailing list > sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org > http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers > _________________ *Alan Rubin* Sun/Unix/Networking/Web Writing Email:rubin@frell.org _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Wed Jul 24 12:33:33 2002
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