Hi,

When I try to telnet to a local device I get the following error msg. Is telnet not a native command? Any suggestions on where I might be going wrong would be appreciated.

bjh@?:~> telnet 192.168.54.200
bash: telnet: command not found
bjh@?:~> su
Password:
?:/home/bjh # telnet 192.168.54.200
bash: telnet: command not found
?:/home/bjh #

Its a fairly new installation of openSUSE 10.3 that I hve been messing around with in a very New B way. Don't think I have broken it yet.

Thanks and best regards,

Brian H.
Uxbridge Ont.

It's likely that telnet is not in your users PATH. Try using the full path to the telnet command.
/usr/bin/telnet (or wherever it in in OpenSuSE 10.3.

Thanks, I found my prob was that Telnet was not installed. Works much better now.

Cheers & thanks,

Brian H.

I'll just point out the fact that telnet is not secure... It sends your username and password in clear text.

A much better choice is ssh. It runs fully encrypted.

You might be on a home network and not have to worry about it, but using telnet is not a good habit to develop.

Thanks, I take you r point. I have a couple of temperature monitoring devices on my home lan. They only talk telnet and ftp so far as I know. These are the devices I wanted to telnet to.

Cheers and best regards,

Brian H.