On Sat, 01 Nov 2008 11:26:06 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Beartooth wrote: >> On Sat, 01 Nov 2008 15:40:42 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote: >> >>> Isn't it easier just to say >>> telnet 192.168.a.b 631 >>> Doesn't this tell you if you are connected to the CUPS server much >>> more simply? >> >> I take care not to install telnet, or to remove it if anaconda >> installs it. >> > The telnet client is handy to have. The telnet server is the one you > would normally want to remove. Apps like pirut and the packagekit give me only a single choice, telnet or no telnet, without any indication of role; and rpm -q says "not installed." So I had supposed, absent any indication to the contrary, that it was a single package, comprising if not functioning as both a server and a client -- and nobody ever told me "Get rid of telnet server," but simply "Get rid of telnet." Also, if I plug the numbers in to "telnet 192.168.a.b 631" I get an error saying "command not found." If I try "yum install telnet-client" or "...telnet_client," or "...telnetclient," I get a message saying no such package is available. If I put a space between the words, as if telnet and client were two apps, it tells me client is not available, and offers to install telnet -- one unitary thing. How then can you get a client without a server? If I let yum install this one thing, is there then (only then) a way to split it and get rid of half? Remember I neither have nor am likely to acquire the savvy to handle electronic attacks. -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert I try to be paranoid, but I just can't keep up. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
