[Coco] Fedora 6 DVD ISO

[Manney]

Frank Pittel wrote:
> 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.

Frank, he said he was running Debian on a Pentium II:

> About a year ago I replaced my main system (which serves as a server
> and workstation of sorts) with a used Pentium II running Debian.
> ...
> I'm still fighting figuring out how to enable telnet and ftp in
> Debian, this stuff used to be pretty simple (not to mentioned enabled
> by default) in the past.

telnetd, which is the telnet server package for Debian based distros, is
_not_ installed by default. This is probably because of the security
issues that Gene mentioned in an earlier post.

If we just want a telnet client, it's already installed.

-M.