Re: Daemon troubles

[Andrew Gray]

Hi Rolles,

>     For the life of me I am unable to get Gnatsweb to work. I suspect 
> the problem lies with the GNATS daemon. I have detailed the errors and 
> my setup below. IP addresses etc have been replaced with XXs to
> protect 
> the innocent. I am running RedHat 7.1, GNATS 3.113, and Gnatsweb
> 2.9.3.
> 
> I would be most appreciative of input from anyone.

When I was setting up the GNATS 4 daemon under RedHat Linux I had a
problem were xinetd was rejecting the syntax of my "support" xinetd
configuration file and there for not listening on the "support" port.
The problem seemed to be that the xinetd configuration file requires
white space between the attributes, the equals sign (=) and the
values, i.e. "disable = no" instead of "disable=no".

The symptoms you have reported seem to me to be consistent with xinetd
not listening on the "support" port. To confirm this you could run:

netstat -at

If you don't see a line like this:

tcp        0      0 *:support               *:*                     LISTEN

in the output then xinetd is not listening on the support port. In
this case you might want to try adding whitespace in the "support"
xinetd configuration file and restarting xinetd.

Regards,

Andrew Gray