Enabling SWAT

[Dennis K Grow]

"Marc R. Hoffman" wrote:

> I'm having a problem enabling SWAT. I've followed the directions that I
> was able to find on the net. One of the step, however, eludes me:
>
> > Edit file "/etc/inetd.conf". Add the following line if it isn't already
> > there.
> > swat stream tcp nowait.400 root /usr/sbin/swat swat
> > Note: If you have the program "swat" installed somewhere other than "/usr/
> > sbin", then change "/usr/sbin/swat" to be the correct path to "swat".
>
> Unfortunately, I can't seem to find a file called "inetd.conf" in the /etc
> dir, or anywhere else on the system. I've tried this on Red Hat Linux 7, 7.
> 2, and Linux Mandrake 8.1. What are the steps necessary to activate SWAT?
>
> Trying to weed through the docs when all the direction that I get from the
> installer is to read "/swat/README" when there are tens of readme files is
> somewhat disconcerting....
>
> Thanks in advance..
>
> marc
>
>

RedHat 7.x uses xinetd, not inetd.
The easy way:

chkconfig swat on


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