Networking doesn't work
I'm not entirely a newbie - I installed RH 7.1 a couple of years ago and I've been using it regularly since. Installation is my weak point. I've just installed a new RH9.0 and just cannot get the networking to work. I can ping OK but as soon as I try something as fundamental as to telnet to the machine I get a "connection refused" error. Even if I try a local telnet, e.g. telnet localhost, I get this same error.
I've tried setting the security level to a minimum - makes no difference. I had one or two problems when I installed RH7.1 a couple of years ago and I sorted that out using the ipchains command. Oddly that does not seem to exist on RH9.0 I have tried looking for similar posts and found one on Deja that looked promising which referred to not choosing to defer setting up IPX and NIS options during installation. However, I saw nothing like this during my installation dialogue. OK, I know I must be doing something fundamentally wrong - but what? |
Re: Networking doesn't work
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service servicename start For example service sshd start Then you should be able to connect the machine using ssh (Windows SSH client: Putty) or service httpd start This should start Apache, so when you type your Linux machine's IP into a web browser, you should see Apache default page. |
I have reinstalled linux. I checked the group of packages which allegedley includes telnet. When I clicked on Details telnet server was checked. According to the installation log it is installed i.e.
Installing telnet-server-0.17-25 It still behaves the same, i.e. telnet localhost Trying 127.0.0.1... telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused. I've tried: service telnet start telnet: unrecognised service What is this service command anyway - it doesn't seem to have a man page. I thought the various servers were started on demand by xinetd. BTW. I have exactly the same problem with FTP |
What do you have in /etc/rc.d/init.d ? Please post output of the 'ls' command.
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-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2633 Feb 4 2003 aep1000 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 941 Jan 24 2003 anacron -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1458 Feb 24 2003 apmd -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1176 Jan 24 2003 atd -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9435 Jan 28 2003 autofs -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2651 Feb 4 2003 bcm5820 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1316 Feb 19 2003 crond -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2312 Feb 12 2003 cups -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1506 Feb 26 2003 firstboot -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10332 Feb 4 2003 functions -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1541 Jan 29 2003 gpm -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5025 Jan 14 2003 halt -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2601 Feb 25 2003 httpd -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5528 Feb 4 2003 iptables -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1414 Jan 25 2003 irda -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5838 Feb 4 2003 isdn -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1084 Mar 6 2003 kdcrotate -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1335 Jan 31 2003 keytable -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 481 Jul 5 2002 killall -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2163 Feb 25 2003 kudzu -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2201 Jan 26 2003 named -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5080 Jan 7 2003 netfs -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6784 Feb 4 2003 network -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4522 Jan 25 2003 nfs -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2343 Jan 25 2003 nfslock -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2066 Mar 13 2003 nscd -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4054 Feb 13 2003 ntpd -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 4590 Jan 25 2003 pcmcia -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1898 Feb 24 2003 portmap -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1062 Jan 27 2003 pxe -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1516 Jun 26 2002 random -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2246 Jan 7 2003 rawdevices -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1782 Feb 25 2003 rhnsd -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1260 Jan 26 2003 saslauthd -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2440 Feb 25 2003 sendmail -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1175 Jul 10 2002 single -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1928 Mar 14 2003 smb -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1575 Feb 11 2003 snmpd -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1131 Feb 11 2003 snmptrapd -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3225 Jan 25 2003 squid -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2647 Feb 14 2003 sshd -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1369 Feb 7 2003 syslog -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2714 Jan 29 2003 tux -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2072 Feb 28 2003 vsftpd -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1555 Mar 14 2003 winbind -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2576 Feb 27 2003 xfs -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2292 Feb 25 2003 xinetd -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2501 Jan 25 2003 ypbind -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1638 Jan 25 2003 yppasswdd -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1624 Jan 25 2003 ypserv -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1133 Jan 25 2003 ypxfrd |
So your telnet server should be run using xinetd. Do you have it running? If not, use 'service xinetd start'.
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