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>
> I have a similar telnet problem to the person who couldn't telnet into their
> box. After installing Mandrake, I could telnet in/out with no problems.
> However, the other night curiosity got the better of me and I clicked the update
> icon to see what would happen. After the download/install finished, and I
> rebooted my box, I could no longer telnet _into_ my box. telnetting out works
> fine, as does ftp in/out. Does this sound like the telnet server needs to be
> installed, or a hosed configuration file somewhere? As information, I ran
> tcpdchk? or chktcpd? or something like that thinking that I read somewhere that
> that may diagnose problems. It said that popr3d? and in.telnetd could not be
> found in /usr/bin (/sbin). Could this be the problem?? Forgive my not
> remembering exact details as this happened late last night at home and it is now
> early this morning at work. If I am leaving out any helpful information, please
> let me know.
>
> Sigh....It's a geek's life:-)
>
> Thanks,
> Bryan Moorehead
Bryan....download and install the below package. When you upgraded you
only got the client half of the upgraded telnet package, but not the
server half. It was split up by the developers and because of a fault
in the logic of 'update' you need to go get the server part.
ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/distributions/mandrake/updates/6.0/RPMS/telnet-server-0.12-10mdk.i586.rpm
Alan
