Telnet service problem

sanjay2004 · 12-18-2004, 12:15 AM

Hai I am sanjay,

I need to start Telnet sevice in Linux 9.0 ver.

but I am getting following error

The telnet server servers telnet sessions
(It uses unencrypted username/password pair for athotication)

You must enable Xinetd to use this service

(But in services Xinetd is running Successfully)

pl give me the solution to start telnet sevice so that I can check mail services also.

Thanking U

rabeea · 12-18-2004, 01:07 AM

Hi All,

Rather than starting the service telnet start the service of xinetd which will in turn start all services inside xinet.
Hope this will help.
Thnx
Rabeea

sanjay2004 · 12-18-2004, 06:16 AM

Hello

yaar as I said

Xinetd service running successfully
even though it is giving message for starting telnet sevice

Then where or which file I need to check exactly.

It is confermed that Xinetd sevice successfully running.

What may me the next possibility

Hope u may give proper solN

Bye

Demonbane · 12-18-2004, 06:30 AM

make sure "disabled = no" in /etc/xinetd.d/telnet
then (re)start xinetd.

scowles · 12-18-2004, 07:49 AM

I need to start Telnet sevice in Linux 9.0 ver.

Huh? Do you possibly mean redhat-9.0? If so, the redhat preferred method of adding a service to xinetd is:

chkconfig telnetd on/off

See: man chkconfig

The chkconfig command should issue a -HUP to xinetd process to reload the config files. Check /var/log/messages after you run chkconfig to verify.

NOTE: I believe you need to install the telnet daemon RPM before the above will work. Unfortunately, I don't remember which RPM the telnet daemon is a part of. I haven't used the telnet daemon since the dawn of dirt (ssh)

sanjay2004 · 12-20-2004, 04:25 AM

yes Ur,

The services of sevices,servers,rlogin,telnet,talk,echo & sgi_fam dependent
on Xinetd which is wrong configured or not installed,

when i select any above services the start,stop & refresh are disabled
i.e. may not installed properly.

pl give me brief note to install or to check all config files

Thank U in adavance.

ilnli · 12-23-2004, 12:16 AM

yaar telnet net is not present in redhat 9 why don't you use ssh.
if you want to use telnet then first download its rpm then install it and then it will work sanjay.