services/inetd/qotd:How to enable?

Hi All !

I am playing with my debian [etch/unstable] to understand more and tried
to enable the QOTD service. I made just an entry in the indetd.conf

quote stream tcp nowait root internal

and rebootet the box [/etc.init.d/inetd restart = command not found].
But a call to the service timed out for the first attempt and then fails
with "Error:connection refused".

I just remember, on my previous machine - NetBSD - the line was

qotd stream tcp root nobody /usr/games/fortune fortune

Can someone point me into the right direction??

Thanks a lot and
best regards,
Manfred

On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 20:35:36 +0200, mabra
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>
> Hi All !
>
> I am playing with my debian [etch/unstable] to understand more and tried
> to enable the QOTD service. I made just an entry in the indetd.conf
>
> quote stream tcp nowait root internal
>
> and rebootet the box [/etc.init.d/inetd restart = command not found].
/etc/init.d/inetd

> But a call to the service timed out for the first attempt and then fails
> with "Error:connection refused".
>
> I just remember, on my previous machine - NetBSD - the line was
>
> qotd stream tcp root nobody /usr/games/fortune fortune
>
> Can someone point me into the right direction??
>
apt-cache install fortune-mod fortunes


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Hi !

Much thanks;I'll give it a try.
Sorry, my "/etc.init.d/inetd restart" was a typo
and even "the right syntax" will not work, because
that directory does not exist :-(

Thanks,
Manfred

Bill Marcum wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 20:35:36 +0200, mabra
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>
>> Hi All !
>>
>> I am playing with my debian [etch/unstable] to understand more and tried
>> to enable the QOTD service. I made just an entry in the indetd.conf
>>
>> quote stream tcp nowait root internal
>>
>> and rebootet the box [/etc.init.d/inetd restart = command not found].
> /etc/init.d/inetd
>
>> But a call to the service timed out for the first attempt and then fails
>> with "Error:connection refused".
>>
>> I just remember, on my previous machine - NetBSD - the line was
>>
>> qotd stream tcp root nobody /usr/games/fortune fortune
>>
>> Can someone point me into the right direction??
>>
> apt-cache install fortune-mod fortunes
>
>