Starting telnet daemon

[Praveen Bezawada]

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

Thanks in advance

...BPK...

[Praveen Bezawada]

I am on redhat 7.2

[Stuart Browne]

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.

[I_M]

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

[Stuart Browne]

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

[Praveen Bezawada]

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...

[I_M]

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

[Daimian Woznick]

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.