Starting Telnet without rebooting

Hi,

I'm trying to start the telnet daemon on an enigma box. I edited
/etc/xinetd.d/telnet and changed the disable entry to "no". Next I tried to
execute /usr/sbin/in.telnetd however I got:

in.telnetd: getpeername: Socket operation on non-socket

What is going on?

Thanks a lot for you help

Gilbert
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