There are several ways of enabling telnet thru xinetd, each more or less
user friendly, but they are all basically changing one line in
/etc/xinetd.d/telnet.  (ie from "disable = yes" to "disable = no")

ntsysv
chkconfig
serviceconf

Regards,

Brock

On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 10:15, Peter Flass wrote:
> Thanks for the pointer to "hup".  Another newbie question:
> I'm trying to set up the telnet service, and can't quite seem to get it
> all together.   I installed the telnetd rpm (RHL 7.2), and played with the
> firewall and config files. Xinetd doesn't want to start the telnet
> server whan I try to connect.  If I start 'in.telnetd' manually I can
> successfully telnet into the system *once*; when I Ctrl-D telnetd drops.
>
> --
> Brock Organ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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