It is possible to run from inetd but you must consider the following: You use pptpctrl not pptpd. You must put pptpctrl in /etc/services as port 1723. You must configure pppd to allocate IP addresses (eg, use /etc/options.ttyXX, the pppd erpcd hack and an erpcd, or some other modification to pppd). libwrap is not used in this mode - you should use tcp wrappers in inetd like with any other network service. The configuration file is ignored in this mode. An example command line is: pptpctrl 0 0 0 0 0 This would be put in inetd.conf as (assuming Linux tcp wrappers): pptpctrl stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/local/sbin/pptpctrl 0 0 0 0 0 --buffer-- Note the --buffer-- is just to make the process name longer so it can modify its name to something meaningful. First option: debugging (0 for off, 1 for on) Second option: PPP options file (0 for off, 1 followed by a file name for on) Third option: TTY speed (0 for default, 1 followed by a speed to set a speed) Fourth option: Local IP address (0 for pppd-determined, 1 followed by an address to set) Fifth option: Remote IP address (0 for pppd-determined, 1 followed by an address to set) Another example, debugging on, alternate config file, setting tty speed and specifying the local IP address: pptpctrl 1 1 /etc/ppp/options.PPTP 1 115200 1 192.168.0.1 0 David Luyer, luyer@ucs.uwa.edu.au Tue Jun 15 16:06:05 WST 1999