Hi Jerry, On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 08:32 -0400, Jerry Geis wrote: > I am using centos 5.1 x86_64 > I am wanting to restart xinetd > > when I do "service xinetd restart" > it says xinetd unrecognized service > > when I do "/etc/init.d/xinetd restart" > I get no such file or directory. > > How does one restart xinetd? On a CentOS 5.1 system, xinetd is not installed by default and thus not startable. You should first install xinetd using 'yum -y install xinetd'. Then you can restart xinetd. Where do you need it for ? Regards, Michel van Deventer