Turning on POP, telnet, IMAP & others that require xinetd to start

This may be a small document but for the newbie, it’s painful trying to do it through a text screen. Here’s how:

at the prompt type cd /etc/xinetd.d press enter

then type ls press enter and it will look like this:

[root@TestSrvr xinetd.d]# ls
chargen        echo        imaps     pop3s      rsync       talk    vsftpd
chargen-udp    echo-udp    ipop2     rexec      servers     telnet
daytime        finger      ipop3     rlogin     services    time
daytime-udp    imap        ntalk     rsh        sgi_fam     time-udp

each entry when opened with your favorite text editor look a bit like this:

# default: off
# description: The POP3 service allows remote users to access their mail \
# using an POP3 client such as Netscape Communicator, mutt, \
# or fetchmail.
service pop3
{
socket_type = stream
wait = no
user = root
server = /usr/sbin/ipop3d
log_on_success += HOST DURATION
log_on_failure += HOST
disable = yes
}

Notice the disable = yes, change the yes to no for all options in the previous list.

When finished run the following command /etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd restart press enter and after this those chosen functions will run whenever the machine is rebooted.