Telnet error

[Antony Stace]

is telnet installed?

do a

$rpm -qa|grep telnet


and see if you have actually installed a telnet server on your machine

Vineesh U S wrote:
> 
> Hi Mark Greed,
> I installed RH7.0 on my machine.
> and as told by you I tried to edit /etc/xinetd.d/telnet...............
> but to my surprise I found that there was no files like telnet, ftp
> etc.......... the only file I could see was linuxconf-web........... there
> was no other files.........
> also there is no files related related to this in /usr/sbin/ ie. in.* files
> ........ the only file starting with "in." was in.identd...........
> 
> Can you please figure out for me what is wrong? Is it that my installation
> was not proper? Actually I installed RH7.0 from a CD I had obtained when I
> purchased the Book "Complete Reference"
> 
> How do I go about this.
> 
> Don't ask me to reinstall 'coz I have tried it three times .... still I'm
> always getting the same result...............
> 
> Expecting a quick response from you..........
> 
> Thanks and regards
> Vineesh
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Greed" <reepy at reepy.org>
> To: <Vineesh.US at MobiApps.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 3:29 AM
> Subject: Re: Telnet error
> 
> > On Tue, 28 Aug 2001 22:13:26 +0530,
> > "Vineesh U S" <Vineesh.US at MobiApps.com> may or may not have written:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > > I installed linus (Red hat 7.2) on my PC
> > > now when I try to telnet ........ I'm getting this error
> > > Connecting To xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx...Could not open a connection to host:
> > > Connect failed
> > >
> > > what could be the problem?
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance
> > > Vineesh
> > >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I had the same problem and managed to fix it.
> > If you are trying to connect to the RH72 machine with telnet then then:
> > Make sure you can make a connection otherwise (eg ping), and then edit
> > /etc/xinetd.d/telnet and set disable to no.
> > And then you have to restart xinetd: killall -HUP xinetd ??? or something
> > like that or just reboot.
> > And make sure your settings are correct in hosts.(allow|deny)
> >
> > Good Luck.
> >
> > --
> >
> > Mark Greed
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