Hi,
I just got core 4 installed, and trying to install a cvs server.
Everything looks fine (I can connect to port 2401, and response on telnet
looks normal), except, I have to start xinetd (/usr/sbin/xinetd) as root,
instead of "service xinetd start" (start in /etc/init.d/xinetd).

If I start /usr/sbin/xinetd directly, everything is OK.
If I start /etc/init.d/xinetd (same as service xinetd start), it always give
promission problems (example,
cvs checkout: failed to create lock directory for `/cvsroot/somedir'
(/cvsroot/CVSROOT/#cvs.lock): Permission denied.

And this happens even if I just put 1 line in /etc/init.d/xinetd file (call
/usr/sbin/xinetd directly).  My question is, is the binary version of xinetd
start itself as someone else when called from /etc/init.d/xinetd??  If so,
what is the user id it starts as?

Setup:
Fedora Core 4.
All latest updates to Nov 22, 2005.
I created user cvs and group cvs, and added myself, root to cvs group, so I
can login as me (not root) and change /cvsroot/CVSROOT/* files.

The following is /etc/xinetd.d/cvs file:
service cvspserver
{
disable                 = no
port                    = 2401
socket_type             = stream
protocol                = tcp
wait                    = no
user                    = root
passenv                 = PATH
server                  = /usr/bin/cvs
env                     = HOME=/cvsroot
server_args             = --allow-root=/cvsroot -f pserver
}

I have used cvs -d /cvsroot init to create the reposit.  Initially I also
got login problems (cvs login and it will complain permission denied trying
to access /cvsroot/CVSROOT/config file, when start from xinetd script.
Start /usr/sbin/xinetd and that problem will go away, and after I reboot I
was able to login even if cvs is started from xinetd script.

Anyone got any ideas?

Thanks!
Gang

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