How to start telnet

[Ed Wilts]

On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 07:29:52PM +0100, Manuel Arostegui Ramirez wrote:
> El Lunes 09 Enero 2006 19:23, Dave Martini escribió:
> > How do I start telnet in RHEL 4.
> >
> > Is there a redhat-config-services equivalent like there is in RHEL 3??
> >
> > sevice telnet start gives this error
> >
> > [root at linux rc3.d]# service telnet start
> > telnet: unrecognized service
> > [root at linux rc3.d]# chkconfig --list |grep telnet
> >          krb5-telnet:    off
> >          telnet: off
> 
> Edit the file  /etc/xinetd.d/telnetd
> changing the two lines to:
> # default: on
> disabled = no
> then try doing this
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd restart

That's overkill and not recommended.  You do not need to restart xinetd
to add a service.  A reload is enough.  chkconfig should also be used to
enable the service rather than editing the file by hand.  What you
suggested will work, but is not the preferred way.

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