Hello , What is the exact procedure to start a telnet ,ftp server in the linux machine?I tried service vsftpd start but it said invalid service name.but in other systems it starts the ftp server. Similarly what is the procedure to start a telnet server in the machine? What is the diff. between :[sf@df]#service httpd start and the command [sdf@sdfd]#httpd Thanks in advance Regards- kaushal - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html