topic Re: Starting telnet daemon in Operating System - Linux

Starting telnet daemon

Praveen Bezawada — Tue, 02 Jul 2002 16:50:34 GMT

Hi
How to start the telnet daemon on a linux machine.

Thanks in advance

...BPK...

Re: Starting telnet daemon

Praveen Bezawada — Tue, 02 Jul 2002 16:52:04 GMT

I am on redhat 7.2

Re: Starting telnet daemon

Stuart Browne — Tue, 02 Jul 2002 23:47:10 GMT

If you have the 'telnet-server' package installed (rpm -q telnet-server), then you can just issue the following two commands as root:

chkconfig telnet on
service xinetd restart

This does the following steps:
(chkconfig telnet on)
modfies /etc/xinetd.d/telnet, changes the 'disabled = yes' line to 'disabled = no'.
(service xinetd restart)
this basically issues an '/etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd restart', which does something similar to "kill -USR1 `cat /var/run/xinetd.pid`".

If the package is not installed, then you'll need to grab it from your Installation media, or from your nearest RedHat mirror.

Hope this helps.

Re: Starting telnet daemon

I_M — Wed, 03 Jul 2002 01:22:09 GMT

Hi

I think telnetd is kicked by xinetd.

So that you don't need to do "chkconfig telnet on". Actually, you don't have /etc/rc.d/init.d/telnet file....
So that #chkconfig telnet on will fail.

good luck

Re: Starting telnet daemon

Stuart Browne — Wed, 03 Jul 2002 06:06:05 GMT

masanari,

chkconfig on anything after RH7.0 does both services started from xinetd, as well as /etc/rc.d/init.d/, under it's command. RH7.1 and above have the telnet service defaulting to 'off', assuming the user will use the more secure 'ssh' abilities. It needs to be explicitly turned back on.

bkx

Re: Starting telnet daemon

Praveen Bezawada — Wed, 03 Jul 2002 08:26:59 GMT

Hi
I don't have the telnet server package.
Can anyone suggest the location from where I can download telnet server package of redhat 7.2 on i686.

...BPK...

Re: Starting telnet daemon

I_M — Wed, 03 Jul 2002 11:15:17 GMT

Hello again,

You may download the "telnet" and "telnet-server" rpm from
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redhat-7.2-en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS

They are binary for i386 system.
Of course you can use it on i686 cpu.

Good luck

Re: Starting telnet daemon

Daimian Woznick — Tue, 09 Jul 2002 18:01:08 GMT

Just as a note, there is a web-based interface for the system administration tasks. You can find it at www.webmin.com. So when you are stuck trying to figure out how certain things run in Linux, you can turn to the GUI to help. It's free also.