[Samba] SWAT Won't Start - Alarm Clock

[Bit]

Paul Venzke wrote:
> On Mon March 10 2008 10:07, Bit wrote:
>   
>> Hey everyone,
>>
>> If anyone could help me with this problem, I'd greatly appreciate it.
>>
>> Whenever I try to start swat (from the command-line by invoking
>> /usr/sbin/swat), it sits there for a very long time as if it's running,
>> but any attempt to use telnet to the port or point my browser at it
>> results in nothing, as if swat were just not running.  Firewalling is no
>> issue, I've disabled it.  Swat ultimately dies after a few minutes
>> giving no output to the console other than "Alarm clock".  What does
>> this error message mean?
>>
>> I've tried running swat with -d 10 and "strace /usr/sbin/swat -o myfile"
>> hoping that the output will mean more to someone else than it does to
>> me.  I've seen other people with this problem googling around, but no
>> solution, and I can't seem to figure it out on my own.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for the help,
>> bit
>>
>>
>>     
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>
> Have you tried using your browser  with http://localhost:901/
>
>   
Yes, and I get nothing.  I can't recall the exact error message in 
Firefox (and I don't have access to the machine at the moment), but it's 
basically as if nothing is there whatsoever.

Sounds like I may *have* to run swat through xinetd.