From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010808 Description of problem: web access is almost totally useless Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install linuxconf 2. Enable web access 3. Open port(s) in ipchains Actual Results: Nothing. Expected Results: Web access to linuxconf Additional info: After playing around with strace it looks like it wants to run in daemon mode instead of using the stdin/stdout channel xinetd is giving it. To compound the problem, regardless of what is in /etc/services it binds to port 8000. A workaround I used was to do "linuxconf --http &>/dev/null &" which started it up.... on port 8000 instead of 98. There is a --port switch, but it also makes zero difference.
Now in 7.2 it's even worse. Now it does seem to repond to the --port 98 switch, but it doesn't stay running. It won't run from xinitd and still only seems to service one connection then exit. I know linuxconf is supposed to be scheduled for removal, but until there is a replacement that can do what it does I need to make it work!
Correction. Linuxconf will work on 7.2 But a line in /etc/hosts.allow with: ALL: localhost would not allow lynx "http://localhost:98" to work. Adding in a line with the hostname in question and switching localhost for the hostname in the lynx comnmand still didn't bring joy. However, adding: linuxconf: ALL works. So is this a problem with tcpwrappers, xinitd or linuxconf.... too late to worry about such matters, it works. Linuxconf does its own access controls so I hope I can get away with that ALL for now.
Closing because we don't ship linuxconf anymore
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.