In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, craig duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I want to enable rlogin/rcp etc on a debian box i have running >woody/2.2.19. This should be very easy, thinks i, but going to >inetd.conf i find: > >#:BSD: Shell, login, exec and talk are BSD protocols. > >and that is all. I make my way to the man pages on update-inetd and >see that i could (although i haven't tried it) do an: > > update-inetd --add ENTRY > >Is manually adding an entry for e.g. rlogin what i need to do? >Doesn't seem very convenient (out of the box).
No, you need to install the rlogind package. That package itself will make sure that the proper update-inetd command is run. Mike. -- "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former" -- Albert Einstein.
