xinetd

Check out the man page for xinetd.conf and copy (and possibly modify) the telnet example. Name this file "telnet" and drop it in /etc/xinetd.d and restart xinetd.
~M


On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Dominic Busher wrote:

> Bad new is my Linux system crashed AGAIN today. Good
> news is I now have an Intellistation to do my Linux
> project on and I am getting very familiar with Linux.
>
> Question: I installed xinetd and ssh ( and
> dependencies). I know xinetd is started because I
> issues a 'service xinetd start' and it came back OK.
> Now when I try to telnet into the linux box from a
> networked PC I get :
> "Connecting To tucgate01.tucson.ibm.com...Could not
> open a connection to host: Connect failed"
>
> I have NOT touched any of the Host.deny/allow files or
> the xinetd.conf file. I can ping the Linux box and I
> can telnet/ftp OUT of the linux box into other
> workstations on the network.
>
> Any clues?
>
>
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