i assume that you mean you needed to install inetd, not saned? anyway- check for group saned, and make sure it is the saned user's default group.
beyond that, i dunno. allan On 3/3/08, Geoff Lane <bunsen at tesco.net> wrote: > On 1 Mar 2008 at 19:47, m. allan noah wrote: > > > I naievely thought that as I had saned.conf that saned was installed, it > wasn't. > > I downloaded and installed it but still problems. > > If in saned.conf I alter the entry > > sane-port stream tcp nowait saned.saned /usr/sbin/saned saned and delete the > .saned so it > reads nowait saned then if I do a local port scan then port 6566 shows; it > does NOT if I leave > it as saned.saned. > > I get the impression that it may be a user or group problem. > > > > are you sure the xinetd or inetd (which ever your distro uses, i'm not > > sure) is set to start at boot up? > > > > > I am having a few problems with saned, I have followed the advice in the > > > MAN pages for setting up for network access but for some reason sane is > > > not broadcasting after boot. > > > Geoff Lane > > > Welwyn Hatfield Computer Club > www.whcc.co.uk > -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"
