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Starting the Telnet service
Name: unclebyron Date: October 24, 2001 at 11:50:44 Pacific
Comment:
I'm a Linux Newbie. I just installed the latest Telnet package from Red Hat on my Red Hat 7.1 server. What is the name of the Telnet service? I know the Samba service is SMB, Apache service is HTTPD but what is Telnet? Also, how do I get the service to start automatically upon bootup?
Name: regal Date: October 24, 2001 at 12:00:56 Pacific
Reply:
there should be a line added in your inetd.conf file stating to start the telnet daemon on bootup, it may be commented out by default, after you are done, just kill -HUP inetd and the services should start.
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Response Number 2
Name: Kringla Date: October 24, 2001 at 12:11:30 Pacific
Reply:
does it work whid inetd? doesent you ned the inetd PID nummer? to restart it? to get it, ps -aux | grep inetd
just wondering
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Response Number 3
Name: Kurt Astbury Date: January 23, 2002 at 22:11:38 Pacific
Reply:
I'm running Red Hat 7.1 and I cannot find the inetd.conf file. What directory is it in?
Thankyou
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Response Number 4
Name: Vladimir Date: March 25, 2002 at 17:24:14 Pacific
Summary: Well if the inetd is not running then you are either running xinetd or none at all. I think Redhat 7.1 sets up xinetd on default but you can still use inetd if you want, xinetd has been improved and h...
Summary: Well, I am totally lost. I ran setup and set the 'telnet' service to start. There is nothing in hosts.allow or hosts.deny. There is no file called telent in xinetd.conf or init.d directory. I checked ...
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