On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, you wrote:
> Hi All,
> This is probably an easy one for most of you!
>
> After I installed Mandrake Linux 6.1 I could no longer telnet to my machine.
> Is telnet disabled by default? What daemon runs it? I've looked through all
> the Mandrake docs on the CD and every item in Linuxconf to no avail. Please
> help ... Thanks :)
>
> My previous experience was with RedHat 6.0 and telnet just worked after the
> first install.
>
I believe that beginning with Mandrake 6.0 and RedHat 6.1
(not positive about RedHat) the telnet package was split
into separate "client" and "server" packages. You need to
look on the install CD for "telnet-server..." and install
that package as well. It does NOT get installed by default.
John
