[KLUG Members] Enabling Telnet on Suse 9.2 Prof

[Bruce Smith]

> I am trying to run telnet server on Suse 9.2 prof and am not able to
> do it. 

Use SSH instead of telnet.  It does everything that telnet does, plus a
lot more (like X forwarding), and it's secure, where telnet is not.

> For enabling telnet server, I opened up YAST and went to the network
> services (inetd)  and switched on telnet and clicked on finish. 
> 
> I even rebooted, but could not get it up. ps aux | grep telnet doesnt
>  list telnet service. 
> 
> I did chmod a+x  in /etc/xinet.d  for  telnet file. 
> 
> In redhat, I would have used sbin/chkconfig to turn on service, 
> 
> Could some one please help me out? 

Check out the "chkconfig" command to set which services start upon boot.
Just like Redhat.

I haven't run telnetd forever, so I don't know if it's a stand alone
server, or run by xinetd.

If it's a stand along service, SuSE starts those with "rc<tab><tab>"
commands (instead of Redhat's "service" command).  i.e.  "rcsshd start"

If it's run by xinetd, enable it in chkconfig, then restart xinetd.
(or tell it to reload it's config - see it's man page)

Or better yet, use SSH!  :-)

 - BS