inetd.conf missing?

[Mark Johanson]

Ok that makes sence, but as I understand inetd its the service
that controls any network service (ie ssh). Now I can ssh to my
box without any issues upon boot up. Where my confusion now
comes into play is there is no inetd.conf to control these
services and there was no xinted that I could find on the system
either. Whats controling these services then if not inetd or
xinted?

What this all boils down to is I am trying to set up vmware
server at home with the free vmware server. Would go other
routes but this is what we use at work so I am trying to
understand it better. Now I got it installed but when going thru
the configuration for it it states that it can not find
"super-server":



Unable to find any instance of the super-server "inetd" or
"xinetd".  It is possible that you do not have one of these
packages installed on this machine. Please install "inetd" or
"xinetd".

If you do have "inetd" or "xinetd" installed, make sure that
/etc/inetd.conf or /etc/xinetd.d exists. The configuration will
continue, but you should re-run /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl after
you fix the super-server.




So I was trying to figure out why it was not finding it, which
led me to see that there was no inetd.conf, and then more
confusion set in when I realized network services (ie ssh) are
being called when I ssh to my box but unable to figure out why
this is being started with out inetd.conf.

 

> On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 15:21:37 -0600, Kenneth P. Turvey wrote:

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>>On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 10:32:41 -0500, Mark Johanson wrote:

>> Probably a stupid question but where is this located? I've
>> looked all thru /etc but am unable to find it. Tried a find
>for
>> it and came up blank as well. Any suggestions?

>I don't think inetd is installed, or at least started, on an
>Ubuntu system
>by default.  You aren't missing anything.  It probably really
>isn't there.