Hi, How can I get Swat running on my Suse 10.1 system. It's there but desn't seem to be running and I can't access in on http://localhost:901 Samba is running OK. Thanks

Swat is run from inetd. You need to edit /etc/inetd.conf and /etc/services. Check that there is a line like: swat 901/tcp in /etc/services and add (or uncomment) a line in /etc/inetd.conf like: swat stream tcp nowait.400 root /usr/sbin/swat swat Restart your inetd daemon with: # kill -1 inetd.pid (NB You may be using xinetd as opposed to inetd)

thanks 3Dave, It was xinetd.conf and I had already uncommented the swat line in etc/services Still won't allow me access though. Looking at xinetd.conf it contained nothing else but on a different system the inetd.conf has many lines ? Mike

Is xinetd actually running as it may not be enabled by default? $ ps -aux | grep inetd Post up your xinetd.conf. Have you tried pointing your browser at http://127.0.0.1:901 or your local IP, eg http://192.168.0.10:901 rather than using localhost? You may need to edit any hosts.allow and hosts.deny files. Are you able to use yast to control services? Have you tried using webmin? It does so much more than just configure samba via a browser and well worth a look. It does intergrate with swat too which may help. http://www.webmin.com/

Thanks again 3Dave. Results of ps and xinetd.conf listed below. I find the yast control rather confusing as each time I go to look "services" is says they are disabled - click on enable, OK, close, open again... disabled. but looking at the "greyed out" list of services shows swat as running. I'm used to swat rather than webadmin - and as you can see I'm struggling enough trying to get to grips with Suse :-)) >>>>>> ps aux ( my version doesn't seem to like the hyphen -aux ) for inetd and xinetd > mike 9321 0.0 0.1 2724 672 pts/0 R+ 03:17 0:00 grep xinetd mike 9301 0.0 0.1 2724 668 pts/0 R+ 03:16 0:00 grep inet and my entire xinetd.conf > # # xinetd.conf # # Copyright (c) 1998-2001 SuSE GmbH Nuernberg, Germany. # Copyright (c) 2002 SuSE Linux AG, Nuernberg, Germany. # defaults { log_type = FILE /var/log/xinetd.log log_on_success = HOST EXIT DURATION log_on_failure = HOST ATTEMPT # only_from = localhost instances = 30 cps = 50 10 # # The specification of an interface is interesting, if we are on a firewall. # For example, if you only want to provide services from an internal # network interface, you may specify your internal interfaces IP-Address. # # interface = 127.0.0.1 } swat stream tcp nowait.400 root /usr/sbin/swat swat includedir /etc/xinetd.d

From the outputs of ps it doesn't look as though the xinetd daemon is running as the only thing being returned is the grep command. It should return two lines, one for the search with grep in it but also the actual running service, something like: root 97 0.0 0.0 1376 72 ? Ss 2005 0:03 /usr/sbin/inetd Try starting it by hand with: # /etc/init.d/xinetd start You should be able to see port 901 open with: # nmap 127.0.0.1 (PS Just a search for inet would have done as it would have matched both inetd and xinetd)

Thanks again 3Dave, starting by hand failed - so I removed the swat line I'd previously put in xinetd.conf and it then started OK. I have now found /etc/xinetd.d/swat ! port 901 is still not opening. it would also appear that nmap does not exist on the system :-( No worries though, I'm giving up on this distro and going back to Mandrake/Mandriva as they seemed to work "straight out of the box" Thanks again.