Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 176671
Can't enable xinetd-based services
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:19 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; fi-FI; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922 Fedora/1.0.7-1.1.fc4 Firefox/1.0.7 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
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.
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.
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.
System-config-services in FC6 works correctly, closing the bug.