Hi, Taq!
Fancy "meeting" you here :D! Good to hear that after all your years as a
programmer and sysadmin you're finally beginning to use the "right" OS ;).
As for telnet, I don't think Mark Weaver answered your question, or did he?
I use Mandrake 7.0-2 on my dual-boot Dell laptop, and the daemon is
/usr/sbin/in.telnetd. However, if you look in /etc/inetd.conf, you'll see an
entry for telnet where it starts tcp, the tcp-wrapper program. If I
undestand things correctly, this means that the tcp daemon is not constantly
running as a background process. Instead, inetd starts tcp upon an attempted
telnet connection. The tcp-program then checks /etc/hosts.allow and
/etc/hosts.deny as well as tries to do a reverse lookup on the machine
asking for the connection (if I remember correctly; you'll have to check the
tcp help). If you don't want to run the tcp-wrapper (I recommend it if we're
talking about a server which is not behind a firewall) or you use ipchains
or such, you can either start in.telnetd upon connection via the inetd
daemon, or start it at bootup via one of the /etc/rc-something directories
(I'm still used to Solaris more than Mandrake, so I'm not sure; someone else
on the list can surely help). Unfortunately my modem is not supported so I
have to mail via Windows. Hope this helps.
Taq, jag har g�rna mer kontakt om Linux bara mellan dig och mig, om du vill.
Jag kan nog lista ut det mesta �ven om jag inte anv�nt Linux s�rskilt l�nge.
Det p�miner ju mycket om Solaris fr�n Sun. F�r �vrigt �nskar jag mig ett
externt modem som st�ds av Linux Mandrake, s� kan jag sl�nga ut Windows.
Solong,
Olof
----- Original Message -----
From: "Taquin Ho" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, October 02, 2000 2:47 AM
Subject: [newbie] Getting a Telnet daemon up
> Hi,
>
> I installed Linux Mandrake 6.0 and realised that I forgot to install a
> telnet daemon during the installation process. What is the simplest way to
> installed and configure Telnet? Is the daemon called telnetd? I can't seem
> to find it...
>
> Regards,
>
> Taquin
>
>
>
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