This was something that somebody mentioned a day or two ago. You may have
telnet disabled. When installing ssh it automatically disables telnet because
it's not secure.
You also may not have the telnet-server installed, which would then not let
anybody telnet in.
Run this command to determine if you do have the telnet server up and
running.
rpm -qa | grep telnet
On my machine at home, YODA, it is now, but I use ssh since it's secure.
[root@yoda /root]# rpm -qa | grep telnet
telnet-0.17-5mdk
On another friend's machine I have an account on, it is installed, though it's
disabled.
[timh@eric timh]$ rpm -qa | grep telnet
ktelnet-0.61-6mdk
telnet-0.16-4mdk
telnet-server-0.16-4mdk
So check for those things. The telnet-server-0.16.-4mdk is on the install discs
for 7.2. I don't remember which CD, but I do know they're on there.
And actually, now that I look, it's on Disc one.
[root@yoda RPMS]# pwd
/mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS
[root@yoda RPMS]# ls -la telnet-*
-r--r--r-- 8 root root 50832 Oct 6 08:07 telnet-0.17-5mdk.i586.rpm
-r--r--r-- 8 root root 27695 Oct 6 08:07
telnet-server-0.17-5mdk.i586.rpm
Hope that helps.
tdh
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* Robert Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001216 05:38]:
> I'm trying to telnet into a box running LM 7.2 but it keeps telling me
> "connection closed by foreign host". What is causing LM 7.2 to do this?
> I've looked at hosts.allow and hosts.deny to no avail.
>
> Thanks,
> Seve
