On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Ryan Ware wrote: > Since we all know telnet is horrible in this day and age, why isn't it > dropped entirely? Is there any function it can do that SSH cannot? Every > time someone brings up Telnet, they are smacked down by everyone telling > them find another way. Shouldn't we just end the debate and get rid of it? >
[EMAIL PROTECTED] summer]$ telnet quokka smtp Trying 192.168.1.113... Connected to quokka. Escape character is '^]'. 220 quokka.computerdatasafe.com.au ESMTP Sendmail 8.11.6/8.11.6; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 05:52:02 +0800 helo rat 250 quokka.computerdatasafe.com.au Hello numbat.computerdatasafe.com.au [192.168.1.101], pleased to meet you quit 221 2.0.0 quokka.computerdatasafe.com.au closing connection Connection closed by foreign host. You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/summer [EMAIL PROTECTED] summer]$ True, this is the telnet client. I don't install the server. -- Cheers John. Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb
