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From: David Chappell <David.Chappell@trincoll.edu>
Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2003 11:57:29 -0400
Subject: PPR: Re: BOUNCE ppr-list@mail.trincoll.edu: Non-member submission from [Alain.Lachapelle@smiths-heimann.com]

owner-ppr-list@mail.cc.trincoll.edu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>   I have compiled ppr 1.51 today.  I get the following errors during make 
> install  :
> 
> Checking for "/usr/sbin/xinetd"... not found
> Checking for "/usr/sbin/inetd"... found
> Checking for "/etc/inetd.conf"... does not exist, aborting.
> make[1]: *** [install] Error 10
> make: *** [install] Error 1
> 
> Using which I get this :
> 
> bash-2.05a# which xinetd
> /usr/sbin/xinetd
> 
> So obviously xinetd is there, as well as a xinetd.conf file in /etc
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Alain

The script is z_install_end/install_inetd.sh.  The test for Xinetd is:

if [ -f /usr/sbin/xinetd -a -d /etc/xinetd.d ]

You do have /etc/xinetd.d, don't you?  I was under the impression that 
it was pretty standard, but maybe it is a Mandrake Linux thing.

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