telnet rpm?

2002-04-29 Thread Michael Marcucio
i can't seem to find the rpm for telnet anywhere. i see graphical telnets but not the plain 'ol telnet. if mandrake dosn't have a telnet rpm for ppc can i use one from yellowdog? are they compadable? or d/l the src.rpm and build it? thanks mike

Re: telnet rpm?

2002-04-29 Thread Stew Benedict
On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Michael Marcucio wrote: i can't seem to find the rpm for telnet anywhere. i see graphical telnets but not the plain 'ol telnet. if mandrake dosn't have a telnet rpm for ppc can i use one from yellowdog? are they compadable? or d/l the src.rpm and build it? thanks

Re: telnet rpm?

2002-04-29 Thread Henrik Edlund
On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Stew Benedict wrote: SB We like to encourage folks to use ssh, but there is a telnet client SB and server: Often you no longer use telnet to connect to a telnet server, but as a simple diagnostic tool to talk to HTTP server and so on. -- http://www.edlund.org/

Re: telnet rpm?

2002-04-29 Thread Michael Marcucio
From: Stew Benedict [EMAIL PROTECTED] We like to encourage folks to use ssh, but there is a telnet client and server: everyone should use ssh but some people still use telnet and it would be nice to be able to connect to them ;) [stew@powerbook-cooker base]$ grep telnet rpmslist

Re: telnet rpm?

2002-04-29 Thread Ben Reser
On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 03:03:27PM -0400, Michael Marcucio wrote: i can't seem to find the mdk telnet client rpm here: ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandrake-devel/cooker/ppc/Mandrake/RPMS/ Should be there but secsup is always really behind on the mirroring process. Here it is

Re: telnet rpm?

2002-04-29 Thread Stew Benedict
On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Michael Marcucio wrote: From: Stew Benedict [EMAIL PROTECTED] We like to encourage folks to use ssh, but there is a telnet client and server: everyone should use ssh but some people still use telnet and it would be nice to be able to connect to them ;)

Re: telnet rpm?

2002-04-29 Thread Henrik Edlund
On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Ben Reser wrote: BR On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 09:07:58PM +0200, Henrik Edlund wrote: BR Often you no longer use telnet to connect to a telnet server, but as a BR simple diagnostic tool to talk to HTTP server and so on. BR BR Try HEAD or GET for that. You'll have these if

Re: telnet rpm?

2002-04-29 Thread Henrik Edlund
On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Ben Reser wrote: BR Actually using telnet for that is not the greatest idea. You should BR use something like netcat (nc) since telnet attempts to negotiate BR terminal settings and therefore sends a bunch of extraneous info BR across the line. Most protocols are tollerent

Re: telnet rpm?

2002-04-29 Thread Ben Reser
On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 03:00:41AM +0200, Henrik Edlund wrote: I still use telnet to connect to routers, switches, and so on... :-) Not all of those manufacturers have begun switching to ssh yet. Yea unfortunately I have a lot of Cisco equipment that doesn't have enough flash space to upgrade