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[Tony Nelson]

At 10:14 PM +0200 2/6/07, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>On 06/02/07, Matthew Saltzman <mjs at ces.clemson.edu> wrote:
>> On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>>
>> > On 06/02/07, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> If it helps any, I can vouch for that site.  They do a great job and they
>> >> are frequently mentioned on the VMware forums.
>> >>
>> >
>> > Allright, then, I'm game. I'm running the runme.pl script now, and
>> > I've gotten to this:
>> > The default port : 902 is not free. We have selected a suitable
>>alternative
>> > port for VMware Server use. You may override this value now.
>> > Remember to use this port when connecting to this server.
>> > Please specify a port for remote console connections to use [904]
>> >
>> > WARNING: VMware Server has been configured to run on a port different from
>> > the
>> > default port. Remember to use this port when connecting to this server.
>> > Unable to find any instance of the super-server "inetd" or "xinetd".
>>It is
>> > possible that you do not have one of these packages installed on this
>> > machine.
>> > Please install "inetd" or "xinetd".
>> >
>> > If you do have "inetd" or "xinetd" installed, make sure that
>>/etc/inetd.conf
>> > or
>> > /etc/xinetd.d exists.
>> > The configuration will continue, but you should re-run
>> > /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl after you fix the super-server.
>> >
>> > Hit enter to continue.
>> >
>> > So, I'll remember port 904 if need be. But what should I do about
>> > inetd and/or xinetd? Yum them? (I didn't yet check if they are
>> > available)
>>
>> $ rpm -q xinetd
>> xinetd-2.3.14-8
>>
>> If you don't have it, yum for it.  It's possible that it was not installed
>> originally if you did not install any package that requires it.
>>
>> Are you running something that listens on port 902?
>>
>> $ grep 902 /etc/services
>> ideafarm-chat   902/tcp                         # IDEAFARM-CHAT
>> ideafarm-chat   902/udp                         # IDEAFARM-CHAT
>>
>>
>
>ideafarm-chat   902/tcp                         # IDEAFARM-CHAT
>ideafarm-chat   902/udp                         # IDEAFARM-CHAT
>
>I've googled for a few minutes but I can't figure out exactly what
>this ideafarm-chat does. I hope that it's not associated with
>ideafarm.com as one post that I found suggests. In any case I don't
>want it- I'll see if I can have the VMWare server replace it on 902.
>
>[root at localhost ~]# man ideafarm
>No manual entry for ideafarm
>[root at localhost ~]# locate ideafarm
>[root at localhost ~]#

Looks like you need to run updatedb?

I googled for ideafarm-chat and it's part of VMWare, and listens on port 902.
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