RE: [newbie] TELNET help! Please?

2001-08-31 Thread Franki
it is, telnet is started by inetd or xinetd (depending on what you have installed..) if its xinetd, go into /etc/xinetd.d and check the telnet entry... make sure it doesn't have disable=yes in there, also, it might not hurt to comment out the +=USERID lines for logon success and logon

Re: [newbie] TELNET help! Please?

2001-08-31 Thread Tim Holmes
Telnet is easy to use, but it's starting to be phased out because it's insecure. The odds are, if you're dealing with a Mandrake 8.0 install, the telnet server is not installed. As I recall, it's not set to install automatically. But run this command to determine if the server is actually

Re: [newbie] TELNET help! Please?

2001-08-31 Thread civileme
On Friday 31 August 2001 12:26, Marchetti, Peter wrote: I have read every man page, searched the web 12 dozen times...tried EVERYTHING I can think of...telnet WILL NOT let me log into my server. If anyone would like to help me out, please drop me an e-mail...I'm losin my mind here... I