From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030314 Description of problem: After upgrading to the errata release of xinetd (2.3.11-1.7x), the VMware GSX authd service was no longer responsive on port 902 (its default port). When VMware GSX was installed, it created custom entries in the /etc/xinetd.d directory for this service. Upon reloading xinetd, it rejected the service because there was no matching entry in /etc/services: xinetd[9088]: service/protocol combination not in /etc/services: vmware-authd/tcp I found that by adding the line "type = UNLISTED", xinetd once again registered the service. While perhaps the "type" specification should have been specified all along, the xinetd upgrade broke VMware until this workaround was discovered. The original contents of /etc/xinetd.d/vmware-authd: # default: on # description: The VMware remote access authentification daemon service vmware-authd { disable = no port = 902 socket_type = stream protocol = tcp wait = no user = root server = /usr/sbin/vmware-authd } The modified contents of /etc/xinetd.d/vmware-authd: # default: on # description: The VMware remote access authentification daemon service vmware-authd { disable = no type = UNLISTED port = 902 socket_type = stream protocol = tcp wait = no user = root server = /usr/sbin/vmware-authd } Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xinetd-2.3.11-1.7x How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Be running xinetd-2.3.7-4.7x 2. Install software (VMware GSX) that creates entry in /etc/xinetd.d 3. Upgrade to xinetd-2.3.11-1.7x 4. Restart xinetd 5. Services in /etc/xinetd.d that don't have type = UNLISTED aren't active Actual Results: xinetd did not register a previously active service (vmware-authd) Expected Results: xinetd should not have an impact on previously working services Additional info:
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Red Hat Linux is no longer supported by Red Hat, Inc. If you are still running Red Hat Linux, you are strongly advised to upgrade to a current Fedora Core release or Red Hat Enterprise Linux or comparable. Some information on which option may be right for you is available at http://www.redhat.com/rhel/migrate/redhatlinux/. Closing as CANTFIX.