SuSE

Why use grep?

Code:

find /etc -name xinetd.conf

 or

locate xinetd.conf

Oh boy haha i ran those commands and they both did not find xinetd.conf. I ran them on some other files i knew were there and they found them so i don't know what the hell is up with this, it's so messed!

Oh and in ran then on inetd.conf to and it came up with nothing!

What distro are you running? I signed on to a Redhat system. I verified which inetd I was running with:
ps -ef | grep inetd

And I see that I have xinetd

To find out what the config file is, I used the command:
man xinetd

The man page says /etc/xinetd.conf. Sure enough it is there. And both
find /etc -name xinetd.conf
locate /etc/xinetd.conf

can find it.

In your /etc/xinetd.d directory, you should have a file named 'telnet'. If you do not you probably do not have the telnet rpm installed. Install it and see if the file shows up. Once it does simply edit is and change "disable=yes" to "disable=no". Now restart xinetd. There are many ways to do this, I use 'service xinetd restart' but I am not sure if this works way back in 7.1. If by chance you want to telnet as root, add lines like this to the end of /etc/securetty

pts/0
pts/1
pts/2
...

When you telnet to a RHL box you connect to the pts/# device. The securetty file tells telnet which devices to allow root to connect to. No pts means no root telnet which may or may not be what you want.

perfect, thanks man, i'm going to do that as soon as i have a free second, i'm so boged down with school right now it's nuts!

After turning my computer room upside down not once but twice i've come to the conclusion that my red hat CD is MIA. Is there anywhere i can download teh RPM for the telnet client? hehe i'm so hopless. I tried a few sites but it jsut brings me up jiberish on the screen instead of a download. Haha i'm so sorry, i'm really new to this and i don't have anybody to ask so this is the only place i can come....lol. Thanks

just the way ive always done it.

byblyk, go back to the sites where you said when you tried to download it you just recieved garbage on the screen. instead of regular clicking on whatever link brought you to that, right click on it and click save as.

if those links dont turn out to be what you were expecting, try searching freshmeat.net. you could of course go to a redhat package specific site, but i dont feel like searching for any .

however you *should* know about freshmeat.net, as well as cool little projects people throw together, you can find many standard unix tools there aswell.