Re: attempting to get the latest version of Xinetd and Inetd going on the latest version of 64 bit cygwin

[René Berber <r dot berber at computer dot org>]

On 11/25/2013 3:41 PM, Katherine Moss wrote:

> Hi all, I'm just learning how to do this, so please forgive me if
> I've missed something obvious.  I'm in the process of installing
> Cygwin on a Windows 8.1 machine with the Inetutils package installed.
> My goal is to get Xinetd working properly so that I can define some
> other services with it.  I've used the following command to attempt
> to install it since by default /etc/xinetd.conf is not there; do I
> need to create it?
> Cygrunsrv -I xinetd -d "Cygwin xinetd" -p
> /usr/sbin/xinetd This command results in: "interactive is only
> allowed with install."
> What am I missing here?  The same thing
> happens when I attempt to install Inetd.  Thanks all for any
> feedback. all is welcome.

All packages come with a README under /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/, for 
instance inetutils.README... but it seems to be missing some instructions:

There are several ways to install the service, one is with the included 
files AND by also installing sysvinit (the System-V init script runner) 
which then will run the /etc/rc.d/init.d scripts (in this case 
/etc/rc.d/init.d/inetd).

The other way is as you tried, which is as a Windows service.  I have no 
idea why the message you show appears, it shouldn't.  But there's also 
the missing details, xinetd will probably not work w/o additional 
parameters (perhaps keep it in the foreground, so cygrunsrv can actually 
control it -- but this should be in the README, I just don't have xinetd 
installed so I don't know).

The configuration file should be among those installed, or its 
equivalent (I see that inetutils installs 
/etc/defaults/etc/xinetd.d/ftpd, and others; it also installs 
/etc/defaults/etc/inetd.conf which probably needs to be copied into 
/etc).  Start by checking what is actually installed:

cygcheck -l inetutils

--
René Berber


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