Oh ok. Thanks for that. Take care, Sina No trees were destroyed in sending this message. However, a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. -----Original Message----- From: speakup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-722-7209 Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2003 8:00 PM To: SPEAKUP Distribution List Subject: Re: General linux question Hi, Actually, there's no need to edit the xinetd files. chkconfig handles this also. Just do: chkconfig telnet on It's most spiffy. chkconfig will signal xinetd for you, so you don't even need to restart it. HTH. -- Bill in Denver On Sun, 9 Nov 2003, Janina Sajka wrote: > Hi, Sina: > > Sina Bahram writes: > > > > ... but how do I check if I am running gnome or kde for the desktop > > environment. Is there any command I can do via telnet? > > The configuration of Xwindows use is at /etc/X11. However, I don't > think you need to worry about it. It's not as if you can't smoothly > stray from one to another. > > Rather, your concern is to have the desktop come up talking with > Gnopernicus following your login on the graphical login dialog--or > following your launch of gnopernicus from the command line. > > > > Also how > > can I enable telnet and ftp. I can ssh into the box but it's a > > crappy ssh and I want to enable the telnet client and the ftp > > server. > > Areyou unable to use your Fedora Core system natively for some reason? > The results and the learning curve will be significantly enhanced if > you do. Certainly, you're not going to succeed with Gnopernicus over > telnet, at the very least. > > However, to answer the question you asked, you'll need to enable both > telnet and vsftp servers, and allow their ports if the Linux machine's > firewall is on, as it likely is. > > Here's what to study: > > Learn about the service command: > > service [service.name] start/stop/restart > > For the more permanent fix, learn the chkconfig command. > > To enable/disable various firewall (and other) settings, use the setup > command. > > Look at the configurations for vsftp under /etc and tweak as you see > fit. Also, edit the telnet configuration file under /etc/xinetd.d/ -- > and be aware that you need to restart xinetd after so doing. > > How do I just get an ftp that will let me do anything I > > want. > > Well, I have never heard of an interface that lets one do anything > they want. However, you can configure vsftp to do all that it can for > you as described above. > > Janina > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
