inetd.conf missing?

[Phillip Susi]

Mark Johanson wrote:
> 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?
> 

Nothing, sshd is running in standalone mode.

> 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.
> 
>  

You need to install inetd or xinetd, it isn't installed by default.