[TriLUG] a simple question

[Kevin Sonney]

On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 10:17:08PM -0400, Chris Hedemark spoke thusly:
> But that's a telnet *client*.  The question was how to start a telnet 
> *server* on a Linux box.

Make sure you have the telnet server package for your distro
installed. On Red Hat it's "telnet-server", and "rpm -q telnet-server"
will tell you if it's installed. 

If you use xinetd, cd to /etc/xinetd.d and make sure the telnet config
file has the disable flag set to no. Restart xinetd as a CYA if you
modified anything. 

If you use inetd, make sure the line for telnet/in.telnetd is not commented
out of /etc/inetd.conf. If it is, remove the "#" and then restart inetd. 

As long as the proper packages are installed, a telnet server should
now be available. You know the usual warnings for telnet, so I won't
repeat them here.

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