Enabling telnet

[Paul Smith]

On 11/19/06, replies-lists-redhat at listmail.innovate.net
<replies-lists-redhat at listmail.innovate.net> wrote:
> do you have something listening on port 9734 already? if so, then
> there's nothing to do, except issue the telnet command (there's no
> colon between ipnunmber and port in telnet).
>
> i.e., unless you didn't install the telnet client for some reason,
> there's nothing to do to enable use the that client.
>
> now, if you don't have something already listening on 9734 and are
> trying to get the telnet daemon to listen there, that's a different
> issue.
>
> [if you have iptables running you could be blocking inbound connection
> attempts to random ports and you'd need to adjust that.]

Thanks, Rick. Apparently, I do not have anything listening on 9734. I
get the following:

$ telnet 127.0.0.1
Trying 127.0.0.1...
telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
$

Any further ideas?

Paul


> ------------ Original Message ------------
> > Date: Sunday, November 19, 2006 11:20:10 AM +0000
> > From: Paul Smith <phhs80 at gmail.com>
> > To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> > Subject: Enabling telnet
> >
> > Dear All
> >
> > I need to enable the following:
> >
> > telnet 127.0.0.1:9734
> >
> > (but only from my own box). Any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Paul
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