strange errors

[George Mochrie]

On Wednesday 02 April 2003 11:57 pm, Auke Kok wrote:

Thanks, that explains it.

> 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

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George Mochrie
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