Axalon,
Thanks for the help! I did finally find and install the telnet-server
package, and all is well once again.
I'm not quite up on all the details of RPM yet. Do I understand the
layperson's version of what you said to be "Because it just does default
options, sometimes MandrakeUpdate will stomp on stuff you have installed
already. We're working on fixing that so it doesn't do that anymore." (Sorry
for my density -- still getting all of this Linux stuff under my belt.)
Thanks again!
Sean
> On Sat, 11 Sep 1999, Sean McMains wrote:
>
>> > On Sat, 11 Sep 1999, Sean McMains wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hi Folks,
>> >>
>> >> Another odd little question. I can no longer Telnet into my Linux box, and
>> >> don't know why. It establishes the connection, but doesn't give any login
>> >> prompt (even if you whack RETURN a few times), and then disconnects about
5
>> >> seconds later. What's going on?
>> >>
>> >> Sean
>> >
>> > rpm -q telnet-server, says???
>>
>> It says it's not installed. But as far as I can tell, telnet relies on inetd
>> and tcpd, both of which are there and apparently working, since FTP is
>> working fine, and I think it also relies on them. (This is from reading man
>> pages and poking around, so I may be mistaken here.)
>>
>> Is there a separate telnet-server package that somehow got uninstalled?
>>
>> Thanks for the help.
>>
>> Sean
>
> Yes there are seperate packages for the telnet client and telnet server.
>
> MandrakeUpdate couldn't handle specific instructions for rpm on a package
> by package basis. So when you update a stock 6.0 systems telnet you'll
> need to manualy install the telnet-server package, if you want it. I don't
> know the status it's either already done or being tested, to allow
> specific instructions per package, so it could for example when upgradeing
> the kernel install useing -i not -U, modify lilo.conf, run lilo, prompt to
> reboot, prompt if the kernels ok, yes erase the old, no restore the old
> erase the new, prompt to send a bug report upon reboot cause there were
> errors.
>
> --
> MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/
> --Axalon
>
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