Fedora 7 telnet-server problem

[John Wendel]

Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> John Wendel wrote:
>> I don't have it installed, but isn't telnet usually started by xinetd?
>>  So, "chkconfig telnet on" won't do anything?  Or does it modify the
>> xinetd conf file?
>>
> It modifies the file with the matching name in the /etc/xinet.d
> directory. It changes the "disable = yes" to "disable = no". You can
> check it on one of the services provided by xinetd. Look at the
> discard-stream file. Then run "chkconfig discard-stream on" and see
> how it changed.
> 
> Also, from the chkconfig man page:
> chkconfig also can manage xinetd scripts via the means of xinetd.d
> configuration files.  Note that only the on, off, and --list
> commands are supported for xinetd.d services.
> 
> Mikkel
> 


Thanks for the informative reply, sorry for the noise, I should have 
RTFM. I don't normally run xinetd, but it looks like I'll need it soon.

Regards,

John