Setting up local host

[Brett Worth]

On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Gartside, Andrew wrote:

> Now I can ping my own machine ( #ping localhost) but I can't telnet my own
> machine
> # telnet localhost
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
> Have I missed a step? Can anyone suggest where I should look? My guess is I
> have to change

In /etc/xinetd.d there's a file called telnet.  At the end there's a line
that will say "disable = yes".  Change this to no and do a
"killall -USR1 xinetd".

> want to enable ftp too.

Same directory. Different file.

> Andrew Gartside

Brett

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