On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 12:54 +0100, T. Horsnell wrote:
> >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.
the services app appears to be completely unable to change the disable
setting. i have tried to turn on services run by xinetd a number of
times now, and the only way that they can be enabled is to manually edit
the config file for them.
john
