Telnet Fedora Core 3

Paintballguy59 · 01-05-2005, 12:28 PM

I need to turn on telnet so I can reach this box via telnet by any other machine. I looked in the /etc/xinetd.d/ folder and couldnt find any telnet file. How do I go about turning it on?

wpn146 · 01-05-2005, 02:03 PM

Do a:

Code:

rpm -qa | grep telnet-server

Do you have a telnet-server package installed? That package should contain /etc/xinetd.d/telnet.

After the file is there, you may enable/disable it by:

Code:

/sbin/chkconfig telnet on
---or---
/sbin/chkconfig telnet off

After you get telnet working perfectly, I will point out that ssh is superior to telnet.

Paintballguy59 · 01-05-2005, 04:52 PM

It turned out I didnt have the server RPM installed. I figured it out just before you posted...

I know SSH is better, I use it all the time but I am running some tests that I need telnet for. Its an all internal LAN....

atillabaspinar · 02-02-2005, 04:18 AM

Althoug i installed the package telnet-server from the CD, i could not see a "telnet" file in etc/xinetd.d directory. what may be the problem.? when i try to re-install the package, system gives an "already installed" message, but no telnet file is created...

wpn146 · 02-02-2005, 10:55 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by atillabaspinar
Althoug i installed the package telnet-server from the CD, i could not see a "telnet" file in etc/xinetd.d directory. what may be the problem.? when i try to re-install the package, system gives an "already installed" message, but no telnet file is created...

What do you get when you type:

Code:

$ rpm -qa | grep telnet-server
telnet-server-0.17-30
$ rpm -ql telnet-server-0.17-30

Note: The first rpm command will show the exact version numbers of the telnet-server. If yours are different, use those numbers in the second rpm command. Also, the "-ql" in the second rpm command uses the lower case "el" character.