Re: Localhost connection refused

[Simon Cozens <simon@example.com>]

On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 04:24:57PM +0900, John De Hoog wrote:
> It didn't change my inability to connect to localhost in any way.

In which case, leafnode is simply not running. Leafnode (typically) runs
from inetd, which means there should be a line in /etc/inetd.conf 
looking a little like this:

nntp            stream  tcp     nowait  news    /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/leafnode

If not, leafnode is either not installed properly or not installed at all.
If it is, first try "ps aux | grep inetd" to check that inetd is running.
If inetd is not running, try "/etc/rc.d/init.d/inetd start". (I think that's
right for RatHead) If inetd is running and you can't connect but the above
line is in inetd.conf, try "killall -HUP inetd" and try again.

> > disabled) but you can find those things in /etc/xinetd.d.
> 
> Aren't multiple distros fun? That directory on Red Hat 7.1 has only 
> linuxconf-web  and rsync  .

Oh, damnit, it's xinetd. In which case, the above may be completely
irrelevant. If that directory doesn't have leafnode in it, leafnode may
not be correctly installed. Does /usr/sbin/leafnode actually exist?

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