Installation problem

[evharten]

When i run the installer, on my FreeBSD 4.9 Box
i get the error that xinetd isn't running,
the inetd daemon is running, but haven't installed xinetd.
don't know what to do about this,

any help ??? below is the log.

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===> Checking for the necessary system accounts
Checking for the system groups and users necessary for Qmail...
Checking for the group 'nofiles'...
Trying to add group 'nofiles'... done

Checking for the user 'alias'...
Trying to add user 'alias'... pw: user 'alias' already exists

ERROR while trying to check if xinetd daemon is running

Aborting...



===>Removing installed Plesk components ...

===> Removing modules
psa_v7.5.2_build75050202.12_os_FreeBSD_4.9_i386.sh: /usr/local/psa/rc.d/psa: not found
Trying to restart inetd daemon... done
Trying to restart inetd daemon... done
Trying to restart inetd daemon... done
Trying to restart inetd daemon... done
Trying to restart inetd daemon... done
Trying to restart inetd daemon... done
Trying to restart inetd daemon... done
Trying to restart inetd daemon... done
Trying to restart inetd daemon... done
Trying to remove group nofiles... done
Trying to remove group psaadm... Trying to remove group psaadm... pw: unknown group `psaadm'
done
done
Trying to remove group psaftp... Trying to remove group psaftp... pw: unknown group `psaftp'
done
done
Trying to remove group psacln... Trying to remove group psacln... pw: unknown group `psacln'
done
done
done

 

[evharten]

Solved, the error was a not synced master.passwd and a passwd file in the /etc dir.

 

[shortcut]

To sync the /etc/master.passwd file and generate an /etc/passwd file from it, I think the command is..


pwd_mkdb -p /etc/master.passwd

although im not 100% sure of what this command does, this has worked for me when restoring blanked master.passwd files on BSD from backup.

master.passwd backups are stored in
./var/backups and can be REALLY handy if you delete your main master.passwd file for whatever reason.,

-Sean