Matt Surico wrote: > > newly installed one, but I get "Connection refused". Do I need to > > install anything else, or am I missing some other setup? I wanted to > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > be able to telnet before installing all the rest of the packages, so I > > could do it remotely... Also, I tried doing a remote copy (rcp) of some > > packages from my other machine, and got "permission denied" even though > > I was root... Does rhosts need to be set up for rcp to work? > > > Check /etc/hosts.deny. The system installs with tcp-wrapper > and this defaults to a 'paranoid' state, ie, all remote connections > are refused until you change it.
No, remote connections should work. The "paranoid" keyword in the /etc/hosts.deny file means that access from any host whose name does not match its IP address will be denied. Peter -- Peter Tobias EMail: Fachhochschule Ostfriesland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fachbereich Elektrotechnik und Informatik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Constantiaplatz 4, 26723 Emden, Germany
