>On Wed, 6 Jul 2005 10:46:23 +0100 (BST), Jonathan Allen wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> I'm trying to enable rlogin and telnet services on a FC4 machine. I >> use the system services menu program, select and tick the box for both >> services, save and exit. But the service never starts and if I reopen >> the services menu program the boxes are unticked again. >> >> What gives ? Is this a bug ?? > >What can you demonstrate by verifying the services with the command-line >tools ("chkconfig" and "service")? You ought to see files like /etc/xinetd.d/telnet /etc/xinetd.d/rlogin with contents like: # default: on # description: The telnet server serves telnet sessions; it uses \ # unencrypted username/password pairs for authentication. service telnet { flags = REUSE socket_type = stream wait = no user = root server = /usr/sbin/in.telnetd log_on_failure += USERID disable = no } If 'disable = yes' then the service wont function. Try editing this. I dont know how this cooperates with the system-services app. Cheers, Terry. > >-- >Michael Schwendt <mschwendt@xxxxxxxxxxxx> >Fedora Core release 5 (Development) - Linux 2.6.12-1.1413_FC5 >loadavg: 1.16 1.20 1.12 > >-- >fedora-list mailing list >fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx >To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >