On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 11:22 -0500, John Bray wrote: > 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. Does "chkconfig telnet on/off" not work either? Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>