Hi, all -- I need to get telnet to work on one of our mechines running Mandrake 7.0. When I telnet to the machine, it connects and gives the "escape character is ^]" message, but then drops the connection. I can FTP the machine, so it isn't a matter of the hosts.deny file, and INETD is working correctly. How do I get the machine to recognize a legitimate telnet session? thanks. pete Pete Clapham Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences Cleveland State University Cleveland, Ohio, 44115 Phone: [216] 687-4820 Fax: [216] 523-7175 EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]