How to start telnet
Ed Wilts
ewilts at ewilts.org
Mon Jan 9 18:29:33 UTC 2006
On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 10:23:50AM -0800, Dave Martini wrote:
> How do I start telnet in RHEL 4.
>
> Is there a redhat-config-services equivalent like there is in RHEL 3??
>
> sevice telnet start gives this error
>
> [root at linux rc3.d]# service telnet start
> telnet: unrecognized service
> [root at linux rc3.d]# chkconfig --list |grep telnet
> krb5-telnet: off
> telnet: off
If you would have removed the grep and eyeballed the result, you would
have seen that telnet is started by inetd. You therefore just need to
turn it on an HUP inetd (which chkconfig actually does on your behalf).
# chkconfig telnet on
.../Ed
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