SuSE

hey,

I was wondering if anybody could help me setup my telnet on my linux 7.1 machine. I need it so i can do some remote work on soem stuff i've got going when i go away next month. I've tried a few times before but it didn't work, i don't know why.

thanks for your help.

what distribution of linux are you running? many of them have telnet installed by default. all you may have to do is uncomment it in your /etc/inetd.conf file. it would look something like this:
# <service_name> <sock_type> <proto> <flags> <user> <server_path> <args>

where service_name would be telnet, socket type would be tcp and so on...to uncomment the line you would remove the # at the beginning of the line.


you may however want to look into SSH. it is more secure than telnet. www.openssh.org

sorry haha i forgot to say what linux i was running...it's Red Hat 7.1, i think thats all i've gotta do because i remeber doing it before with red hat 7.1 to test it on on a Virtual Machine. Thanks and i'll look into that SSH.

I went into my /etc directory and i don't have the file inetd.conf...lol. I know it should be there some where but upon doing a grep nothing turned up. I have installed the apache server, php and sql so would any of those have moved it possibly. I remeber seeing it i just can't remeber where.

You will have xinetd.conf instead.

where is the xinetd.conf file located? I have a xinetd.d directory but it has wu ftpd and linuxconf-web in side of it.

ill move this to the linux section, as this is linux specific. i dont use redhat and i dont know where your inetd.conf/xinetd.conf would be if its not in /etc/

why dont you try :
find / | grep xinetd.conf

Thanks for the help, after running the search it turned up nothing...lol. I'm going to give up and jsu ttry some other stuff because this is to annoying, i'll try that ssh instead. It'll give me a fresh start.