CUPS, Alpine, and printserving : telnet weirdness

[Aaron Konstam]

On Sun, 2008-11-02 at 15:47 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
> On Sun, 02 Nov 2008 03:47:36 +0100, Björn Persson wrote:
> 
> > Beartooth wrote:
> 
> >> [btth at Msgv ~]$
> >> telnet 192.168.a.c 631 -bash: telnet: command not found
> > 
> > You're on the wrong machine. You installed Telnet on Hbsk2. Then you
> > SSHed into Msgv, where Telnet is not installed.
> 
> 	Oh, blitherition! I gave them names just so I could keep track, 
> and I *still* mix them up. <sob, gasp, sound of head beating on 
> computer ...>
> 
> 	Meanwhile, I've shut all four machines down, and am in process of 
> booting them up again -- whereupon I'll go into system-config-firewall 
> and enable both IPP server and client as trusted (taking that to mean 
> "trusted within the LAN") on them all; I suppose, now that I know more, I 
> might as well install telnet, too. (I've known it save me, more than 
> once, to be able to get into a machine that can't run its X-server.) 
> Stay tuned.
> 
I should have asked sooner. Why can't ssh get you to a machine without
an X-server?
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