On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 14:11 -0500, Douglas Frank wrote: > (Yeah, I know I'm supposed to be using ssh.) > > Kicking off xinitrc in debug mode, it emits thusly: > > Service configuration: login > id = login > flags = IPv4 > socket_type = stream > Protocol (name,number) = (tcp,6) > port = 513 > wait = no > user = 0 > Groups = no > PER_SOURCE = -1 > Bind = All addresses. > Server = /usr/sbin/in.rlogind > Server argv = in.rlogind > Only from: All sites > No access: No blocked sites > Logging to syslog. Facility = authpriv, level = info > Log_on_success flags = HOST PID USERID > Log_on_failure flags = HOST USERID > > Does this look OK? I suspect not, since it doesn't work. Xinetd (-d) > doesn't react (i.e. prints nothing) when I try to rlogin. BTW > in.rlogind is there and executable, but that's not the issue: xinetd > doesn't recognize incoming connection requests. Does "netstat -lp" show xinetd listening on the "login" port (513)? Is there a "disable = yes" line in your "rlogin" entry for xinetd? Do you have a firewall turned on that doesn't have a hole at port 513? Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>