[KLUG Members] Enabling Telnet on Suse 9.2 Prof

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> I am trying to run telnet server on Suse 9.2 prof and am not able to
> do it. 
> New to Suse. Have used redhat before. 
> By default telnet seems to be disabled. I am in a private network , so
> I guess it should be ok. 
> I installed telnet server software package using YAST.  
> 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. 

Use netstat to see if anyone is listening on 23/tcp.

> 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? 

Did you open 23/tcp in the firewall?
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