libwrap??

[dishawjp]

Hi All,

I'm running FC1 and going through my /var/log/messages I ran into a lot of lines like the following:

endpoint is not connected
Dec 21 15:29:21 eunix xinetd[3453]: libwrap refused connection to sgi_fam (libwrap=fam) from <no address>
Dec 21 15:29:21 eunix xinetd[3454]: warning: can't get client address: Transport endpoint is not connected
Dec 21 15:29:21 eunix xinetd[3454]: libwrap refused connection to sgi_fam (libwrap=fam) from <no address>
Dec 21 15:29:21 eunix xinetd[3455]: warning: can't get client address: Transport endpoint is not connected
Dec 21 15:29:21 eunix xinetd[3455]: libwrap refused connection to sgi_fam (libwrap=fam) from <no address>
Dec 21 15:29:21 eunix xinetd[3456]: warning: can't get client address: Transport endpoint is not connected
Dec 21 15:29:21 eunix xinetd[3456]: libwrap refused connection to sgi_fam (libwrap=fam) from <no address>
Dec 21 15:29:21 eunix xinetd[3457]: warning: can't get client address: Transport endpoint is not connected
Dec 21 15:29:21 eunix xinetd[3457]: libwrap refused connection to sgi_fam (libwrap=fam) from <no address>
Dec 21 15:29:21 eunix xinetd[3458]: warning: can't get client address: Transport endpoint is not connected
Dec 21 15:29:21 eunix xinetd[3458]: libwrap refused connection to sgi_fam (libwrap=fam) from <no address>

Everything seems to be working fine, but I was just curious about the error messages. I run a 56k connection on ppp0 which does not come up until I bring it up. Just curious about this.

On a related note, with FC1, in order to use my normal .bashrc alias to connect, I had to copy
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-name_of_my_ISP to
/etc/sysconfig/network-scriptsetc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-pp0

to set up an alias of connect='/sbin/ifup ppp0'

I suppose this is an improvement or a feature but I have run into it in every FC1 install I have done (about 4 or so) and I find it to be a bit annoying. Using "neat" to connect through its GUI allows connections easily enough, and I guess if I knew anything about kppp or any of the other GUI dialers it would be fine. It just seems like a step backwards; kind of Microsoftish to me.

Just my $.02

Jim Dishaw

[Void Main]

As far as your sgi_fam message I have never seen that one. Probably because I always turn off sgi_fam (chkconfig sgi_fam off). In fact I usually have xinetd turned off completely as I don't usually use any xinetd services. I did fins something close to the messages you are getting although for Red Hat 8:

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/sho ... i?id=74696

I don't understand why you would have a file called:

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-name_of_my_ISP

You should only have "ifcfg-ifacename" where "ifacename" is something like "ppp0", "eth0", etc. How did you get one with your ISP name? Did you create it by hand or with the graphical utility "redhat-config-network"? You might want to take a browse through /usr/share/doc/initscripts-7.42.2/sysconfig.txt and search for "ifcfg" and read from there down if you are interested in the manual way of configuring it. As far as having to bring it up manually, how else do you want to bring it up? You can use the graphical tool "redhat-config-network" for this as well. This tool is on the menu. There is also a wizard like tool that will set up a dialup connection on the menu under "System Tools" called "Internet Configuration Wizard".

This document might be even more helpful for you:
https://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/lin ... faces.html

[dishawjp]

I don't understand why you would have a file called:

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-name_of_my_ISP

You should only have "ifcfg-ifacename" where "ifacename" is something like "ppp0", "eth0", etc. How did you get one with your ISP name? Did you create it by hand or with the graphical utility "redhat-config-network"?

I used "neat" to create the connection, which is a shortcut to teh graphical utility redhat-config-network. It worked just as you said on previous versions of Red Hat, but with Fedora core, it does not create an "ifacename" of ppp0, but instead uses the name of the ISP. I can then copy
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-name_of_my_ISP :
to:
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0
and everything works fine. It's strange, and maybe I should just learn how to manually configure ppp0 as you recommended. This has happened to me on every FC1 install I've done (at least 4 or 5).

Also, stopping xinetd worked perfectly for the other problem.

Thanks again for all your help.

Jim Dishaw