Re: How do I enable Telnet??

On Tue Mar 11 2003 at 09:21, "Blessing Kamutande" wrote:

> I thought /etc/services was the problem and again the machine does not have the inetd.conf.

xinetd is an enhanced replacement for inetd.  It's main configuration
file is /etc/xinetd.conf which includes a directory (/etc/xinetd.d/)
which contains one configuration file per service.

> Is that normal???

Yes.

> one more question how do I check what port is open e.g. the telnet port

	netstat -plutn

(the -n is optional, "use numbers instead of names").

or:

	lsof -i

> thanks for the replies

Have fun!  Linux rocks...

> blessing

Cheers
Tony