On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 10:55:35PM -0700, Dwight Johnson wrote: > > # update-inetd --add telnet > > The entry definition does not contain any whitespace characters! > > > > What does this message mean? What am I doing wrong? > > Wow. I didn't even know there was an update-inetd program. I always hack > the inetd.conf file by hand. > Can't you just uncomment the telnet entry?
That's what I have always done on my Red Hat and SuSE installations. But on Debian 2.2, my inetd.conf file does not have a telnet entry to uncomment and the inetd.conf file begins with a commented caution to not change it except using 'update-inetd'. But trying to make sense out of constructing an update-inetd add entry using 'man update-inetd' and the associated man pages is beyond me. What does your inetd.conf telnet entry look like? > You shouldn't use telnet > anyway, unless you're on a closed network. Too much cleartext. Use ssh. I would have tried that too, but 'apt-get install ssh' is unable to find the package on my 2.2 CD set. Thanks for your help, Dwight -- Dwight Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
