I've got a brand new FC7 server. I'm trying to enable telnet. I've got telnet-server installed, firewall disabled, made sure /etc/xinetd.d is disabled = no and I've restarted xinetd but I'm getting the Name or Service no known error when trying to connect from either localhost or another windows PC. I've checked over the other various threads regarding this error, but none of it has helped. I've enabled -D, but it seems each time I restart xinetd, a new telnet file appears...under /etc/xinetd.d/ I've now got telnet, telnet~, telnet~~ and telnet~~~. Each time, disable keeps coming back as yes and debug mode is turned off.

And yes, I know, telnet is inherently insecure, etc, etc, however I only need it to work for a short period so a app vendor can login,setup his app and then its getting disabled again.

Help?

Is it listed? "chkconfig --list telnet"
Else turn it on "chkconfig --level 345 telnet on"?
What do the server logs say?


And yes, I know, telnet is inherently insecure, etc, etc, however I only need it to work for a short period so a app vendor can login,setup his app and then its getting disabled again.
You could set them up with an account and make them SSH in with a password, you don't need telnet for that, FCOL.

CHKCONFIG shows telnet as ON.
Logs look normal. Just shows that telnet starts and then ends after a 0 sec duration.

And telnet was requested by the app vendor, however, I've setup VNC for them to get into the box now, but I'd still like to try and figure out whats wrong with telnet.

Manually restart Xinetd with the "-d -filelog /some/logfile" args? Maybe that yields something.