How to spawn gnatsd without using inetd?

How to spawn gnatsd without using inetd?

[Carl-Johan Sveningsson]

Hi developers.

I have a problem. The enterprice is running a NIS, and therefore probably
/etc/services isn't read. inetd can't find support/tcp, and therefore 1529
remains closed and inaccessible.

This is bad.

Though, some way, gnatsd should be spawnable manually so it opens up for
outside calls? -n? Documentation on invoking gnatsd is very poor, so I
turn to you. Could you help me you think?

That would be good.

Thank you.

/Carl-Johan Sveningsson

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Re: How to spawn gnatsd without using inetd?

[Rick Macdonald]

On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Carl-Johan Sveningsson wrote:

> Hi developers.
> 
> I have a problem. The enterprice is running a NIS, and therefore probably
> /etc/services isn't read. inetd can't find support/tcp, and therefore 1529
> remains closed and inaccessible.
> 
> This is bad.
> 
> Though, some way, gnatsd should be spawnable manually so it opens up for
> outside calls? -n? Documentation on invoking gnatsd is very poor, so I
> turn to you. Could you help me you think?

It seems to me you can do one of these:

1)  add support/tcp etc to NIS.

2)  if you can't do #1, but have root access to the machine running
    gnatsd: 

    set /etc/nsswitch.conf "services: files nis" and then put
    support/tcp into /etc/services.

...RickM...