On Sun, 2006-11-19 at 12:25 +0000, Paul Smith wrote: > On 11/19/06, replies-lists-redhat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > <replies-lists-redhat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > do you have something listening on port 9734 already? if so, then > > there's nothing to do, except issue the telnet command (there's no > > colon between ipnunmber and port in telnet). > > > > i.e., unless you didn't install the telnet client for some reason, > > there's nothing to do to enable use the that client. > > > > now, if you don't have something already listening on 9734 and are > > trying to get the telnet daemon to listen there, that's a different > > issue. > > > > [if you have iptables running you could be blocking inbound connection > > attempts to random ports and you'd need to adjust that.] > > Thanks, Rick. Apparently, I do not have anything listening on 9734. I > get the following: > > $ telnet 127.0.0.1 > Trying 127.0.0.1... > telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused > telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused > $ > > Any further ideas? ---- psychic powers do not allow telnet to connect to other than port 23 unless it is specifically told to do so. telnet 127.0.0.1 9734 telnet --help or man telnet will show you the proper terminology Obviously this assumes that there is a 'listener' for a connection on port 9734. You can probably verify that something is listening to port 9734 with a command like netstat -an|grep 9734 Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
