Services Bug

[Paul Howarth]

Jonathan Allen wrote:
>>Do you have the rsh-server and telnet-server packages installed?
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> I have *everything* installed - it was an 'everything' install from CD
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>>I trust you realise that these services are horribly insecure?
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> Yes, but they work well (for our use) on the intranet behind a firewall
> so that no-one outside can get to them.
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> My question still remains: why can't I turn them on ?

Are you getting any messages from xinetd in /var/log/messages?

Paul.