Ray: I changed the line to disabled = yes and verified that the telnet LISTEN was gone. But I still get the same error messages from both the Win2K and SCO boxes when I try to telnet in.
Seems to me that telnet needs to be enabled and NOT disabled in order to work, or do I misunderstand? Thanks again, Billy Davis ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ray Curtis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 3:30 PM Subject: Re: Re: Telnet connection fails > >>>>> "bd" == Billy Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > bd> Hello Ross: > bd> 1. The output of the netstat command included the following: > > bd> tcp 0 0 *:telnet *:* LISTEN > bd> 1940/xinetd > > bd> What does this mean? > > This means you have a port listening [open] for telnet connections, this > should be closed. > > > bd> 2. The xinetd.conf file is quite short and does NOT contain any reference to > bd> telnet. However there IS a telnet file in /etc/xinetd.d that contains this > bd> line (among others): > > bd> disable = no > > That's the one, change to: > disable = yes > > > -- > Ray Curtis > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ccux.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
