brhoades@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU (Bradley D. Rhoades) (07/07/89)
I have been able to successfully build nntp1.5.5 for both C News, and B News 2.11, however am unable to get nntp to fork properly from inetd. I can execute the server interactively and test NNTP and all seems to be fine, however the process never gets started correctly from inetd. When I run inetd with debugging, I get a message like this when telnet'd into the host: 13736 execl /usr/etc/in.nntpd Connection closed by foreign host. I am running Sun OS 4.0.1, and everything else is standard Sun - /bin/cc, cpp, etc. . . The entry I have for nntp in /etc/inetd.conf is as follows: nntp stream tcp nowait root /usr/etc/in.nntpd in.nntpd The entry for the service is: nntp 119/tcp untp usenet readnews # Network News Transfer I tried a couple of different things like not optimizing, building the server without inet support, aka standalone, but no luck. Has anyone else had this type of problem, and the solution. Any input would be useful. Please send replies to me via mail rather than congesting the groups up with this and I will summarize following input.