Re: telnet server

[Mike Burger <mburger bubbanfriends org>]

On Sat, 22 Sep 2001, Blake Thornton wrote:

> I'm trying to set up telnet-server on my machine and don't really know
> what to do.  I've installed both telnet and telnet-server.  I've tried
> both telnet into both the local machine (localhost.localdomain) and my
> inet address I see when I run ifconfig.
>
> Neither works.  The result is the same:
>
> > telnet xxx.xx.xx.xx:
> Trying xxx.xx.xx.xx...
> telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
>
>
> What am I missing?
>
> thanks,
> blake

Did you enable telnet?

If you're running RH 6.x or lower, you'll need to make sure that telnet is
enabled in your inetd.conf file, and restart inetd.

If you're running RH 7.x, you'll need to run "chkconfig telnet on" and
then "service xinetd reload".