On Sun, 2001-11-11 at 12:16, Brian P. Flaherty wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to run an rsync server from xinetd. I have a desktop > connected via eth0 to a DSL line and eth1 connected to a little hub. > My laptop is on the hub too. When I start the rsync server from the > prompt, I can access it from my laptop just fine (on the internal > network). But, when I run it from xinetd, I get this message in my > daemon.log: > > Nov 10 14:48:25 localhost xinetd[2468]: warning: can't get client > address: Invalid argument > Nov 10 14:48:25 localhost xinetd[2468]: refused connect from <no address> > > This message appears 10 times and then rsyncd is "deactivated because > of looping." In what form or from where is xinetd asking for > identification and what is my laptop failing to provide? I thought it > might be related to ident, but all those services are running on my > laptop. I checked the xinetd docs and webpage, but did not see > anything related. When searching google groups, someone had a similar > problem with linuxconf running from xinetd, but there were no > solutions posted. Thanks for any suggestions.
Have you looked in your /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny for possible rejections (most likely a PARANOID directive is stopping your connection)? Does /var/log/messages (or syslog) have anything to say about this? --mike
