Samba Newbie

[Dennis K Grow]

Charles Marcus wrote:

> > From: samba-admin at lists.samba.org
> > [mailto:samba-admin at lists.samba.org]On
> > Behalf Of Julian Opificius
> > Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 12:43 PM
> > To: samba at lists.samba.org
> > Subject: Re: Samba Newbie
> >
> > How do I:-
> > a) start swat from the command line (I suppose this is
> > actually a generic service start stop question, isn't it?)
>
> Depends on the system.  For Redhat 7.x, it is:
>
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd restart

only if you have enabled swat in /etc/xinetd.d/swat first.


>
>
> > 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.


>
> will cause swat to be started automatically when the box is started in
> runlevel 3.
>

No it won't. There is no init script for swat.

>
> Hope this helped...
>
> Charles

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

restart xinetd:

/etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd restart

if you: chkconfig --list

you will see swat listed under "xinetd based services"

Dennis

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Dennis K. Grow
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