first make sure that telnet is indeed installed on your system. at a
command prompt type whereis telnet <ENTER>
it should return a message of /usr/bin/telnet if it is installed
if you get a message that says no such file or folder then telnet was not
installed on your system and you will have to install it.
if you get the message that telnet exists on your system, then check
startup services in Drakeconf and make sure "inet" is selected. if it
isn't then select it. restart your system and you should have not trouble
at all telneting into your box. You will of course wish to setup a good
firewall to make sure that your box doesn't become a hangout for Spammers
and crackers though.
--
Mark
/ * Sometimes it becomes necessary to rock the boat
* in order to get the rats up from below decks
* so they can be kicked over the side and drowned!
*
* REGISTERED LINUX USER # 182496
*/
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On Thu, 30 Nov 2000 Dave DeGear had this to say!
> I did a full install of Mandrake 7.2 and it took about 1.5 gigs. I then
> tried to telnet and ftp into my computer and it wouldn't allow me. I'm
> fairly new to Linux and so am not sure if my permissions are set wrong or if
> the telnet and ftp servers aren't running. I tried "ps ax" and didn't see
> anything like telnetd or ftpd running. I think that I installed the 7.2
> with medium security. I also modified the hosts.deny and hosts.allow to the
> way I had them in Mandrake 6. Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks. ...Dave
>
>
