Samba Newbie

[Dennis K Grow]

After further review, Charles is absolutely correct. Do it his way, it's
easier.

Charles Marcus wrote:

> > From: samba-admin at lists.samba.org
> > [mailto:samba-admin at lists.samba.org]On
> > Behalf Of Dennis K Grow
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2002 3:21 PM
> > To: Samba
> > Subject: Re: Samba Newbie
> >
> > Charles Marcus wrote:
> >
> > > > b) ensure that swat will start on system boot.
> > >
> > > Again, depends on the system.  Again, for Redhat 7.x:
> > >
> > > chkconfig --list
> > > will show you how everything is currently set, and
> > >
> > > man chkconfig will tell you how to change them, ie:
> > >
> > > chkconfig --level 3 swat on
> >
> > If you did this, you will see that it does absolutely nothing.
>
> Well, I just dbl-checked (I'm definitely not what I would call an expert),
> and if I issue an 'off' command as above, then check /etc/xinetd.d/swat, it
> is set to disable = yes.  Then, if I issue the 'on' command per my above,
> this line is changed to disable = no.
>
> So, it appears that you are incorrect - otherwise, please explain what I am
> missing.
>
> Thanks
>
> > swat is a server controlled by the super server xinetd.
> > Xinetd listens on all service ports for the services listed
> > in it's configuration file.
> >
> > /etc/xinetd.conf. This config file includes all the files in
> > /etc/xinetd.d as part of the configuration. Swat must be
> > enabled for xinetd to start it:
> >
> > in /etc/xinetd.d/swat:
> >
> > change disable = yes to disable = no
>
> Thats what the command does... it toggles this line in this file.
>
> Charles
>
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Dennis K. Grow
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