On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, you wrote:
> I am running LM 6.0. When I first set it up, I could telnet into the
> machine. It, of course came with the KDE desktop and has the auto update
> feature. I launched that and added almost all the recommended updates. Now
> I cann't telnet into the computer.
>
> If I run 'ps as | grep telnetd', it shows telnet as a running process with
> the following response;
>
> 9648 pts/0 S 0:00 grep telnetd
>
> But when I try to telnet, I get an almost immediate response "Connection to
> Host lost". If the telnet session was able to communicate at all, the
> telnet client should stall for a couple of seconds and then report unable to
> connect, not connection lost.
>
> BTW, I have VNC installed(I had the telnet problem before installing VNC)
> and it connects fine. The apache web is running fine(www.keefeagency.com,
> one of my clients with a partially finished web site). And I have installed
> NCftpd and that works just fine. I don't know where to look for this one.
>
I'd try re-installing the telnet-server package. As of Mandrake 6.0,
they split off telnet-client from telnet-server.
John
