One more thing: someone suggested using: service sshd start chkconfig ssh on However, both service and chkconfig do not work on my machine(Redhat9.0). Yu Sun --- Yu Sun <yusun9_99@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thank you all for your help! > > I understand ssh is superior to telnet. What I actually intended to > know is how to test the "mini" LAN to make sure it works correctly > beyond 'ping'. I re-checked the two '/etc/xinetd/telnet' files on > both hosts, and 'disable' is set to 'NO'. I reboot the both > machine. > Telnet is still not working. Neither are ssh, scp, rsh etc. (rsh is > the function I really want, I try to install the mpich to test if I > can run parallel program and get speedup by using two machines > connected by a crossover cable, any suggestions about that is > welcomed too). > > > On host1, I type: > > % /usr/sbin/telneted.d ( I am not sure I spell correctly > here) > > I got some message I remember indicating telnet is already running > or > something. Then, > > % /usr/sbin/telneted.d -debug 80 > (according to 'man', this is to manually start the server at port > 80, > seems running) > > on host 2, I type: > % telnet host1 24 > again got 'connection refused' > > How do you know the Telnet server is running? > On host 1, I type: > % telnet host1 or % ssh host1 > It let me login as normal telnet or ssh client, does it mean telnet > or ssh server is runing on host1? > > > Yu > > > > > > > --- Shiraz Baig <shiraz_baig@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > When you get a message of "connection refused", it > > typically appears when the desired server is not > > running on the host machine. In your case, it is > > possible that telnet server is not running. > > > > You need to do three things to make telnet work. > > > > 1) Install telnet server. (On a workstation, > > installation of Linux automatically installs telnet > > client. But you have to yourself install telnet > > server). > > > > 2) Change the value of parameter disable from yes to > > no in the file /etc/xinetd/telnet. Note that if you > > have not installed telnet server, this file may not be > > present in the /etc/xinetd directory. > > > > 3) Either reboot or restart xinetd. > > > > Now your telnet should work. > > Also, as some friends have advised, ssh is more secure > > than telnet. > > bye > > shiraz > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! > > http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail > > > > > > -- > > redhat-list mailing list > > unsubscribe > > mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! > http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe > mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
