Unless you run the program listening on the port, u cannot access its services.
(Oh yeah?)
edit /etc/inetd.conf and put the appropriate program entry for the port on
which it listens on.
This causes to spawn the process (POP in ur case) when u telnet to that
particular port. (Also called portmapping)
HTH
Sai
>
> Hi,
> I wanted to know how to enable a given port number . Eg:
> if I write telnet localohost 110
> it says connection refused.
> How do i enable it? I've checked the /etc/services file. But how to go
> about it?
> 110 actually belongs to POP.
> Waiting for a prompt reply
> thanks in advance.
> --vineet
>
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