[Coco] Fedora 6 DVD ISO

[Frank Pittel]

More likely then not telnet was installed and is simply disabled. With
fedora it can be enabled by going to  /etc/xinetd.d. Edit the file called
telnet the last line should be "disable = yes". Change the yes to no and
restart xinetd. Although proftp isn't included on the core distribution it
is available via yum. It is possible to use vsftpd which is included with
the dvd/cds. It isn't active by default. To start while the server is running
execute as root "/etc/init.d/vsftpd start". To make the change persistant use
chkconfig. As root "chkconfig --level 35 vsftpd on"

Frank

PS - Dan, if you don't understand any of this spend some time reading
documentation for xinetd and the man page for chkconfig. 


On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 11:36:08PM +0100, Manney wrote:
> Dan Olson wrote:
> >>I'll ask the obvious. Did you install proftpd? I have mine as a 
> >>standalone, and have been using proftpd since I switched from RedHat 
> >>-> Mandrake -> Debian. So around 1998 - 1999?
> >
> >You know, I don't know if I did, what does it do, exactly?
> 
> proftpd is an ftp server daemon. I have one running on each of my Linux 
> machines. It's supposed to be better and more secure than wu-ftpd.
> 
> >>Okay, there are packages called telnetd and telnetd-ssl. I installed 
> >>telnetd and it worked without any configuration.
> >
> >I think telnetd is there, but not enabled?  Honestly it's been a long 
> >time.  I want to have telnet working because a) I use it with my old 
> >machines that don't have an SSH and b) because it's the only way that I 
> >know of to get a remote Xterm; telnet in and set the DISPLAY to the 
> >other machine, then run whatever program I want in the background.  
> >Maybe I just don't know of a better way :)
> 
> All I did on my system was install telnetd (sudo apt-get install 
> telnetd), and it worked. I was able to telnet on to my computer from my 
> wife's. I would assume that it wouldn't be too different from Debian 
> Woody or Sarge, but I haven't tried it.
> 
> -M.
> 
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