strange errors

[Auke Kok]

On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 22:21, George Mochrie wrote:
> hi
> 
> I just installed a new box with lunar from the 1.3 cd. I did the usual stuff I 
> do when installing lunar:
> 
> install
> set root password
> remove unwanted modules
> lin Linux-PAM
> configure NIS & NFS
> lunar update
> lunar rebuild
> 
> I also linned xinetd. Now I get the following errors on boot:
> 
> ...
> Starting xinetd: broken daemon: created /var/run/xinetd.pid
> ...
> Starting sshd: broken daemon: created /var/run/sshd.pid
> ...
> 
> Both xinetd and sshd are running and seem to work OK, but does anyone know 
> what these errors are about?

those daemons do not create a .pid file after firing up their services
completely themselves, it's a harmless message noting this. In the
future it will be removed or replace by something less conspicuous.

sofar

-- 
Auke Kok <auke.kok at planet.nl>