Allowing telnet connection

[jgp]

go to xinet.d directory and edit telnet file to enabled it. telnet is
by default disabled even though you have installed it. restart xinetd.


On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 10:28:49 +0100, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sun, 2004-09-12 at 05:03, Jeff Vian wrote:
> > On Sat, 2004-09-11 at 18:22, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> > > No, it does not reload but restart, means stop and start. To enable the
> > > telnet server through xinetd the proper command is
> > >
> > > service xinetd reload
> > >
> > > which reloads by sending a kill -HUP to the process.
> > >
> > > > Mike Burger
> > >
> > Alexander
> >
> > Please explain any (important to the end user) differences between
> > reload and restart.
> >
> > Although the process to get there is slightly different, as I understand
> > it the end result is the same.  The daemon is running with the new
> > configuration.
> >
> > Thus, unless I am completely lost here, it really makes no difference to
> > the user which method is used to reach the same goal.
> >
> > Your explanation above, while technically correct, is irrelevant to the
> > end result in this case.
> 
> Not quite; whilst the state of the services is the same at the end, the
> state during the changeover is different. Doing a reload is not only
> faster, but all unaltered services remain running throughout, whilst
> with a restart those services would have been stopped for a while. For
> most people this wouldn't make a different but on a busy server it might
> be important. So Alex's advice is "best practise".
> 
> Paul.
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> Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>
> 
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