Re: How do I enable Telnet??

Try this commands.

netstat -a | grep -i listen
lsof -i

Tina...

----- Original Message -----
From: "Blessing Kamutande" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 7:51 PM
Subject: Re: How do I enable Telnet??


> Thank you All
>
> Firstly I would like to thank all who answered this question for me. I now
know of two ways to start telnet.
> Most of all, especially for newbies like me, if you can give a bit of
explaination (teaching us to fish :-) ) I will greatly apreciate it. I spent
hours researchin on this but came to naught, apparently I thought
/etc/services was the problem and again the machine does not have the
inetd.conf.
> Is that normal???
> one more question how do I check what port is open e.g. the telnet port
>
> thanks for the replies
> blessing
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Andrew Kelly <[email protected]>
> Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 08:55:01 +0100
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: How do I enable Telnet??
>
> >
> >
> > Tony Nugent wrote:
> > >
> > > On Mon Mar 10 2003 at 16:30, "System" wrote:
> > >
> > > > edit /etc/xinetd.d/telnet
> > > > disable   no
> > >
> > > And easier way would be to do this:
> > >
> > >         chkconfig telent on
> > >
> >
> > Agreed. And that's an appropriate answer for a Redhat list.
> > But, and this is just my personal opinion so please don't
> > take any of this as critism, I think it's
> > only part of an answer because it's handing somebody a
> > fish and not teaching them to fish.
> > Chkconfig is a Redhat tool and it's unwise to rely completely
> > on tools without knowing what it is that they do, doubly
> > so when they are vender specific tools.
> >
> > Just look at something as simple as adduser and the questions
> > about how to move user accounts between machines.
> > An admin who can install a new user by hand rather than
> > only by using a helping script will very likely never ask
> > how to move those users to a new server.
> >
> > When I ask a question it's generally because I want to learn
> > something and not because I want somebody to take care of
> > something for me, and I assume this to be true in most cases
> > although it is very definately not always so. If possible,
> > I try to answer a question in a way that would have satisfied
> > me if I had been the one who asked it.
> >
> >
> > In this particular case I would have wanted to know that
> > the telnet deamon must be running and configured to accept
> > a connection from my host. I'd want to know that telnet
> > is inherently insecure and that although it can be started
> > by hand, generally it is started by the inet process and
> > is made somewhat more secure with tcp wrappers. Then I'd
> > want to be told about the Redhat tool which makes it easier
> > to interface with the init.d start and stop scripts,
> > and THEN I'd want to have ssh suggested to me as a much
> > better alternative.
> >
> > Of course, Blessing might just have wanted the quickest
> > button to push to get a remote connection to his linux host
> > and all of this info would have been just so much bla bla,
> > but
> > a) it's easier to ignore the extra that you don't need
> > than it is to gain from what isn't there, and
> > b) with a complete answer you might answer a question which
> > hasn't yet been asked and will then not need to be asked
> > in the future.
> >
> > Having said all that, I admit to it being a bit more
> > difficult in a mailing list than in usenet because of the
> > absence of FAQs and archives and such, and/or the unwillingness
> > of new list members to use such resources if they exist.
> >
> > Where am I going with all this?
> > Nowhere, really. I just got up way too early and am on
> > my third pot of tea. Got a bit of stimulant to deal with.
> >
> > Andy
> >
> > > > Cheers,
> > > > Tina.
> > > >   ----- Original Message -----
> > > >   From: Blessing Kamutande
> > > >   To: [email protected]
> > > >   Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 3:41 PM
> > > >   Subject: How do I enable Telnet??
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >   Hie All,
> > > >
> > > >   I have just inherited a network with a Linux box that I want to
> > > > amdinister remotely from a Windows box and each time I telnet it I
get
> > > > the error message:
> > > >
> > > >   Cannot open a connection with 192.168.0.1 from the windoze box.
> > > >
> > > >   Please help how do I enable/solve this problem. I am rather new to
> > > > Linux. I am using RH7.2
> > > >
> > > >   TIA
> > > >
> > > >   Rgds
> > > >
> > > >   Blessing
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > > Tony
> >
> >
> >
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