[ale] running proftpd as a child of xinetd

[joh6nn]

David A. De Graaf wrote:

> After creating this file, presumably  /etc/xinetd.d/proftpd ,
> did you restart the server to reread those files?  
>   /etc/init.d/xinetd restart  
> 
> Did you notice in /var/log/messages a line similar to
>   xinetd[28075]: Started working: 4 available services
> with a number equal to those services that you intend to have running?
> 

yeah, every time i made a change to the .conf, i restarted xinetd.

grepping through /var/log/messages reveals that the following, repeating 
for as many times as i tried to get this working:

Feb 28 18:33:29 daedalus xinetd[29872]: pmap_set failed. service=sgi_fam 
program=391002 version=2
Feb 28 18:33:30 daedalus xinetd[29872]: Service sgi_fam failed to start 
and is deactivated.
Feb 28 18:33:30 daedalus xinetd[29872]: bind failed (Cannot assign 
requested address (errno = 99)). service = ftp
Feb 28 18:33:30 daedalus xinetd[29872]: Service ftp failed to start and 
is deactivated.
Feb 28 18:33:30 daedalus xinetd[29872]: 29872 {init_services} no 
services. Exiting...


it's nice to have some idea where to look for error messages now, so 
thanks for that.  i'll get to googling those, but if anyone wants to 
save me some time and just tell me what any of that means, that'd be 
nice too.
--joh6nn