Make sure that you have the proper packages installed. The entries in
inetd.conf will be there regardless of whether the telnet server or ftp
server are installed.
Try running
rpm -qa |grep telnet
If you don't get a line something like the following then you don't have the
telnet server installed and you won't be able to telnet to your box (this is
from a Mandrake 6.1 box YMMV):
telnet-server-0.12-10mdk
I don't know what package to look for for the ftp server as I don't have
that installed at the moment.
Cheers
Scott Petersen
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://jurgen.tzo.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Elvis Chen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 10:17 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [newbie] Mandrake7: security level 3 and ftp/telnet deamon
>
>
>
> greetings,
>
> upon reading the on-line documentation, I have realized that
> most of my
> previous problems were cause by the highest-security level that I set
> during setup. So I reset the security level back to 3, and
> most of the
> stuffs are working on.
>
> The only remaining problem is that I don't know how to start
> telnet and
> ftp server. Accoring to /etc/inetd.conf, the lines for telnet/ftp are
> un-commented. Under /usr/sbin, both in.telnetd and in.ftpd
> are present.
> But I'm still not able to telnet even to localhost. Any idea?
>
> The relavent portion of my /etc/inetd.conf is pasted as the following:
>
> ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.ftpd -l -a
> telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.telnetd
>
> any help is very much appreciated,
>
>
> Elvis
>
