How to install/activate xinetd

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xinetd does indeed some usefull stuff: it starts vsftpd on demand

My problem was: I did not realize that xinetd is listening on port 21
and starts vsftpd when necessary. vsftpd does not show up as a process
before the request is being done. I missed the whole purpose of xinetd.

In deed .
But actually I didn't realy explain the purpose in my post.
Sorry for that.

Other issue: ftp connection was refused because of restrictions in
xinetd's vsftpd service access rights (as per only_from in file xinetd.conf)

I mentioned the connectivity problem here.

If your Log file says some thing like

mmm dd hh:mm:ss xinetd[pid]: START: ftp pid=x from=192.168.x.x
...
mmm dd hh:mm:ss  xinetd[pid]: FAIL: ftp address from=192.168.x.x

modify your xinetd.conf like that (means: from everywhere)

only_from = 0.0.0.0/0

[frankd]

only_from = localhost 192.168.1.0/24 was default, and it didn't work out.

omitting the clause altogether was OK.

Everything is fine now. Thx again