Re: Starting Telnet without rebooting

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On Thursday 27 March 2003 09:38 am, Galea Gilbert wrote:
> 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

Try '/sbin/chkconfig telnet on', and you are done. It makes the needed 
edit to /etc/xinetd.d/telnet and forces xinetd to re-read it's config 
files. You don't want to start in.telnetd, as the process is handled by 
xinetd.

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