On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 11:50:52AM -0500, Zembower, Kevin enlightened us:
> Matt, you're amazing. I don't know which of the two commands did it, but
> it works now, at least minimally.
> 
> I didn't know about the chkconfig command; I'll have to investigate it.

It configures which services start on what runlevel. It also conveniently
manages xinetd resources. I'm guessing there was a 

  disable = yes;

in your amanda xinetd script.  

> I HUPped xinet with 'kill HUP <pid-of-xinet>' and also
> '/etc/init.d/xinet reload', but that might not have done the same as
> 'service xinetd restart'
>

You did it the hard way :-)

service foo args is equivalent to /etc/init.d/foo args

Less typing involved, generally.

Matt

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