On Tuesday 25 February 2003 17:30, Raffaele Belardi wrote: Raffaele when i run tail -f on /var/log/messages i get the following Feb 26 13:35:38 katz xinetd[18006]: socket creation failed (Address family not supported by protocol (errno = 97)). service = telnet any idea? Gil
> Gil, > > you should provide more details in your message for us to be helpful! A > cut and paste of the output of shell commands, in particular, could help > understand what's going on on your machine. > > Does ping 127.0.0.1 work? You should see something like "64 bytes from > 127.0.0.1:..." repeated on the screen until you press CTRL-C. > > Understand that telnet is composed by a client (invoked as # telnet) and > a server (named telnetd, note the final 'd'). Normally the server is > _not_ installed by default. On MDK9.0 the server package is named > telnet-server-krb5-1.2.5-1mdk > > To make sure the server is installed, type > # urpmi telnet-server-krb5 > You should get a message like "everything already installed". > > I installed the telnet server on my MDK to check. First of all, it's a > xinetd service, so it will not normally be shown by ps (I was wrong on > this regard in my previous message). xinetd is a daemon that monitors > the incoming calls on all ports and starts the registered services on > request. > > So, try this: > # service xinetd start > Do you get an OK? To double check, type > # ps -ax | grep xinetd > you should see two lines. > > Then, go to /etc/xinetd.d and do an ls. Do you see there a file named > telnet? This is the telnet server configuration file read by xinetd > daemon when it detects an incoming request on the telnet port. Open it > with a text editor and check that it contains the line "disable = no" > (it means that the telnet server is enabled). > > Finally, open /etc/xinetd.conf and check that it _does_not_ contain any > "only_from" lines. If it does, delete them. > > There's not much more to telnetd configuration. > > good luck, > > raffaele > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Tuesday 25 February 2003 09:36, Raffaele Belardi wrote: > > Raffaele > > it seems that i can't start telnet service > > when i do service telnet start i get ok but in mcc the status is stop > > hosts.allow and hosts.deney are empty. > > Gil > > > >>I would: > >>1. make sure interface is up (ping 127.0.0.1) > >>2. make sure you have the telnet server package installed (Mandrake > >>Control Center) > >>3. make sure telenet server is up and running (ps -axl) > >>4. check /etc/xinetd.conf for any "ONLY_FROM" lines > >>5. check that /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny are empty > >> > >>The last two are the least probable causes, unless you have messed up > >>with the security scripts. What level of security are you running? > >> > >>raffaele > >> > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>>On Monday 24 February 2003 11:33, Raffaele Belardi wrote: > >>>Didn't work > >>>any other idea's? > >>>Gil > >>> > >>>>Assuming that you have the telnet server installed, you need to start > >>>> it (Mandrake Control Center, System tab, Services icon). > >>>> > >>>>Also, I had a similar problem on the MDK PC I use at home, where I have > >>>>a modem Internet connection. I looks like if you don't connect to > >>>>internet, loopback port is not enabled by default, so you get the error > >>>>below. I had to issue a > >>>> > >>>># ifup lo > >>>> > >>>>as root, then it worked ok. > >>>> > >>>>raffaele > >>>> > >>>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>>>>Hi > >>>>>when ever i try to connect to telnet 127.0.0.1 port i get > >>>>>Trying 127.0.0.1... > >>>>>telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused > >>>>>in /etc/hosts.allow i wrote > >>>>>telnet : 127.0.0.1 > >>>>>what should i do? > >>>>>Gil > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>>---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>>>>-- > >>>>> > >>>>>Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > >>>>>Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- ===================================== So long, And thanks for all the fish. =====================================
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