[techtalk] Telnet trouble with RH7.0

[Conor Daly]

On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 12:07:55PM -0500 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Angela Nash thought:
> I don't have xinetd on my RedHat 7 system anymore...but I did at one time.
> I believe to use the server_args directive you have to also use the FLAGS
> directive.  Check the xinetd man page for more information....but I remember
> having to do that when I installed TCP wrappers.
> 
> Jason
> 
> 
>> I'm trying to use telnet with an rh7.0 box and xinetd and I'm having
>> trouble.  My /etc/xinetd.d/telnet is below.  Using the default file (which
>> I may have lost by now, when I try to telnet I get "connection refused".
>> I tried to duplicate the line from /etc/inetd.conf from an RH6.2 box 
>> 
>> telnet	stream  tcp 	nowait  root    /usr/sbin/tcpd	in.telnetd
>> 
>> and when I telnet, I get a "connected" message but no login.  tcpd sits
>> there (presumably) waiting for the user to be authenticated. 
>> /var/log/messages shows nothing
>> 
>> Any thoughts?
> 
FIXED IT!  Did an

rpm -ivh telnet-server-0.17-i386.rpm

UURRGH!  Ever feel stupid?

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