Bug 176671

Summary:	Can't enable xinetd-based services
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Markku Kolkka <markku.kolkka>
Component:	system-config-services	Assignee:	Nils Philippsen <nphilipp>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	4	CC:	m.ninet, mokkarkay
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Hardware:	i686
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=89949
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Description Markku Kolkka 2005-12-29 10:30:55 UTC

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Description of problem:
When trying to switch on any xinetd-based service in system-config-services, the service is enabled and then immediately disabled according to system logs. Chkconfig reports the service as "off" and when system-config-services is restarted, the service is unchecked.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
system-config-services-0.8.25-1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start system-config-services
2. Try to eanble any xinetd-based service e.g. daytime or kshell by checking the box
3. Save the changes
  

Actual Results:  The service remains disabled. The log shows that the service was enabled but then immediately disabled:
Dec 29 12:26:08 nightshade xinetd[2105]: Starting reconfiguration
Dec 29 12:26:08 nightshade xinetd[2105]: Swapping defaults
Dec 29 12:26:08 nightshade xinetd[2105]: Reconfigured: new=1 old=0 dropped=0 (services)
Dec 29 12:26:08 nightshade xinetd[2105]: Starting reconfiguration
Dec 29 12:26:08 nightshade xinetd[2105]: Swapping defaults
Dec 29 12:26:08 nightshade xinetd[2105]: service daytime-dgram deactivated
Dec 29 12:26:08 nightshade xinetd[2105]: Reconfigured: new=0 old=0 dropped=1 (services)


Expected Results:  The service should have been activated and stayed that way.

Additional info:

Managing xinetd-based services with the chkconfig command works normally

Comment 1 mokkarkay 2006-01-31 13:37:59 UTC

I can confirm this bug.

After a little research, I've looked into /etc/xinetd.d directory and found that
for each configuration file there, there's a line disabled=yes.

When the system-config-services runs, it will read the disabled=yes settings and
display them correctly (i.e. if disabled=no, a tick will appear on the left of
the service).

However, if we tick the service and press save, it will always write a
disabled=yes line, whatever if a service is ticked or not.

For now we can manually change the disabled=yes to disabled=no to make services
work.

Comment 2 Nils Philippsen 2006-03-07 08:07:15 UTC

The system-config-date version for FC5 contains fixes in that area (it can apply
changes to xinetd based servbices), as soon as it is out, I plan to backport it
to FC4.

Comment 3 Christian Iseli 2007-01-22 11:33:15 UTC

This report targets the FC3 or FC4 products, which have now been EOL'd.

Could you please check that it still applies to a current Fedora release, and
either update the target product or close it ?

Thanks.

Comment 4 Markku Kolkka 2007-01-22 18:03:28 UTC

System-config-services in FC6 works correctly, closing the bug.