I've been looking through the etc files trying to get cvs pserver set up. etc/groups and etc/services both say at the top that they are not used since NetInfo takes over their job. I found the equivalent info in NetInfo, edited that, it works.

What I can't figure out is if inetd.conf is used since there is nothing at the top of the file refering to NetInfo. How do I put the changes into effect once I change the file?

You should be able to make changes to inetd.conf and then simply HUP the inetd process.

use 'ps-aux | grep inet' to get the pid of inetd then use 'kill -HUP pid' to restart inetd and force it to re-read the inetd.conf file.

[iBeige]

Wolverine - yes, that WOULD work, *if you are running X in single user mode*.

In all normal cases, yes, MacOS X, like any true BSD system, uses NetInfo for all services. I found some good information in the man files (>man niutli), also on this page that I started to write:
http://www.dcubed.com/macosx/

Basically, you have to create a start file in /System/Library/<servicename>/<servicename>, and then add the port and service into NetInfo. It's not that hard to do. The only problem is that I can't figure out how to 'HUP' netinfo to get services to start, because why the hell would I run unix if I wanted to reboot to start things?

Dan

I've specifically modified the inetd.conf file to enable things like verbose logging of ftp sessions and had no problems with the changes taking effect with a HUP of the inetd process.