[sane-devel] Problems running saned from xinetd

[m. allan noah]

anything in the tcpwrappers log (usually /var/log/secure) you may be being 
blocked by your /etc/hosts.allow /hosts.deny files.

allan 

On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Emmanuel Gravel wrote:

> 
> --- Henning Meier-Geinitz <henning at meier-geinitz.de> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 12:33:07PM -0800, Emmanuel Gravel wrote:
> > > Tried that too, since I found it on the net. Didn't work. I'll send the
> > full
> > > contents and all future testing info when I get to my system again.
> > 
> > Check that the group you use in xinetd.conf does exist. And that the
> > path to the daemon is correct. It looks like a problem with xinetd
> > starting saned. You don't use "-d" or "-s" as options for saned? That
> > only works in stand-alone mode.
> > 
> > If you can't find out what's wrongf, you could move saned to
> > saned.bin, write a wrapper shell script that prints something to
> > /tmp/log.txt and starts saned.
> 
> No luck getting anything out of this right now.
> 
> Contents of my saned file in /etc/xinetd.d:
> service sane
> {
>    port        = 6566
>    socket_type = stream
>    protocol    = tcp
>    wait        = no
>    user        = saned
>    group       = saned
>    disable     = no
>    server      = /usr/sbin/saned
> }
> 
> >From a standard user (i.e. not root, not saned) starting saned with -d works.
> With this, xinetd is listening on 6566. It also listens on 6566 as standalone
> when running as a user.
> 
> I did both the direct saned, and the shellscript-wrapped saned.bin. Neither
> works, no output to text file. I tried running as a user with the shell wrap
> (added -d to the script) and it works, and creates the output files.
> 
> Here's a which saned call:
> xinetd.d # which saned
> /usr/sbin/saned
> 
> So I really don't know where to look now. It's definetely an issue with xinetd
> not passing control properly to saned, it seems, but I still don't know what to
> look at. I'm not running any other server with it, so I don't know if it works
> in general, but I know that there's a listener there.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
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